Populating Dropdown Values

Rails
1

I have a Order Status combo box with the following values All Orders,
Accepted, Declined, Gateway
Error, Offline, Refunded and Unknown.

What is the best approach to populate the dropdown values? Should I
store it in a table or define
it in as an array in a OrderStatus class? TIA

2

Bala P. wrote:

I have a Order Status combo box with the following values All Orders,
Accepted, Declined, Gateway
Error, Offline, Refunded and Unknown.

What is the best approach to populate the dropdown values? Should I
store it in a table or define
it in as an array in a OrderStatus class? TIA

do you plan to have new values in the future ? one day your Unknown
value could be split into 2,3 new values ? if , never… I’ll use an
array, if maybe… I’ll use a table…

kad

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do you plan to have new values in the future ? one day your Unknown
value could be split into 2,3 new values ? if , never… I’ll use an
array, if maybe… I’ll use a table…

kad

It is very unlikely that the new values will be added. Performance wise
which one is better?

4

Performance wise, the array will win because there is no DB access
involved.