My RoR efforts have culminated in JiggyMe, check it out!

One of my first challenge in creating a new model is to decide if I should create a lookup table for one of the columns. As an experiment, I decided to hard code the values for that column instead of creating a lookup table. One of the reason is to avoid a join as joins are usually expensive. However, this could result in code duplication, so I need to keep an eye on this. I might end up creating a lookup table later on, we shall see.