jlogsdon/acts_as_approvable — Issue #6: Storage type of state
Author: nwigginsTJ
Created: 2012-02-01 20:02:32+00:00
State: open

I think it makes more sense to store the state on the backend as an Integer/SmallInt, since the database operations would be cheaper. Since the states are really just constants, the plugin can manage the mapping of these states to strings.