title: Rails 3 Application/User Settings best practice?
body: <p>I have a current need for allowing both admin configurable global settings as well as per-user configurable settings within a Rails 3 app.</p>
  
  <p>Are there any gems or best practices that work well for this situation?</p>
  
  <p>I've found a couple of gems and blog posts but they all date back to 2006-08 and are no longer maintained. Any pointers would be appreciated, thanks.</p>
  
  <p>Note: I have seen <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3393249/best-way-to-manage-rails-application-configuration-settings-persisted-in-a-databa">this question</a> with the serialised hash response but in my particular case the ability to query the database for users based on their settings is required - I don't think a serialized hash would work well in that situation.</p>