Rails 3 Application/User Settings best practice?

Question

I have a current need for allowing both admin configurable global settings as well as per-user configurable settings within a Rails 3 app.

Are there any gems or best

Answer 1

For rails 4, if you are using postgresql, you can use HStore, which is just like a serializable attribute, but you do SQL queries with it.

For rails 3, you can use activerecord-postgres-hstore gem.