Ruby on Rails (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Follow me to create a constant on model. Many people ask where a good place to take a constant. I recommend to you to take a constant on your model. For instance: 1. I have song.rb class Song < ActiveRecord::Base #-- # constants #++ KEY_SIMBOLS = [ "C", "C#", "D", "D#", "E", "F", "F#", "G", "G#", "A", "A#", "B" ] #-- # public class methods #++ def initial_key initial_key_sym = KEY_SIMBOLS end end 2. I have constant KEY_SIMBOLS 3. You can access with: song = Song.first song.initial_key Thanks