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Asked: 2026-06-10T18:13:09+00:00

A question about representing a string from a model. I have a Country model

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A question about representing a string from a model.

I have a Country model which has a list of countries.

The countries are in long form eg. United States, United Kingdom, etc.

I want to represent this data in short name form eg. USA, UK.

I don’t really want to change the names on the table column because on my forms I would like keep the long form names.

I thought I would add code in the model Country.rb if self.id == 123 “USA” but I’m sure this isn’t the right way.

Any help will be grand.

Much appreciated.

WD

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  1. Editorial Team

    It is better to store short names in additional field, see below links:

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