Is there a way to manage the states in AASM by keeping them in a table to normalize the data?
Not really sure, how to understand your question.
I was also wondering on how to use AASM to extend states during run- time. Is it this what you are asking?
Well sort of. Basically you have a ton of states that are defined in the model, is there away to take those stares and define them in the db and have a fk pointing back to the main model. Normalized db. Repeated data extrapolated into another table.