how to access constant array of a model inside a view

Hello All,

  I have this array (of, say User's contact preferences) inside the User model.

CONTACT_PREFERENCES = [“Email”, “Mobile Phone”, “Residence Phone”, “Office Phone”, “Fax”]

and inside the view (when registering a new user) I have to show them inside a combo (or a list of check boxes), but when I do something like this

User::CONTACT_PREFERENCES.each { }

it gives me

Symbol as array index

any ideas how I should achieve a similar effect, Thanks in advance.

hmm, does that mean there is no way to do it?