I'm running Rails 4.

I have a model called Challenge, and in my database I'm storing the status of each challenge in terms of 0-4.

But 0-4 isn't very semantic so I want to define a few variables (I'm assuming a constants) so that in any controller or view I can access the number by calling the constant:

# Challenge.rb
class Challenge < ActiveRecord::Base
  SUGGESTED = 0
  APPROVED = 1
  OPEN = 2
  VOTING = 3
  CLOSED = 4
end

I want to access these in my view:

# challenge/_details.html.erb
<% if @challenge.status == CLOSED %>
  Challenge is closed, broheim!
<% end %>

But my view doesn't want to render.

uninitialized constant ActionView::CompiledTemplates::CLOSED

What's the best way to set my status variables so that they may be accessed everywhere I need them? (i.e, anywhere the @challenge variable is present)

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