Convenience method for working with Portfolio Item states

[dawsmith8]

To set a State this syntax is required:

"State" => "/state/"
It would be convenient if a name can be used instead.

It is possible to query State, create a hash, and populate the hash with the query results, where State Name is the key and State _ref is the value:

state_results.each do |s|
s.read
state_hash[s["Name"]] = s["_ref"]
end
Then we can update a State:

features.each do |f|
field_updates={"State" => state_hash["Developing"]}
f.update(field_updates)
end

A convenience method to make this transparent for the users would be nice.