Rails, Data Models, and find_by_sql
Did a little more hacking on Recipes on Rails yesterday. Haven’t decided if I’m doing something wrong, or if ActiveRecord sacrifices a lot of flexibility in the quest for rapid development. I find...
View ArticleActiveRecord as explained by a Hibernate hacker.
A more balanced article would have mentioned how painful it is to do queries in a ‘SQL-like’ language. Impossible to debug, stuff of nightmares...
View ArticleSmall ActiveRecord STI Gotcha
Yeah, got burned by that one as well. Still not an STI fan. http://jroller.com/page/obie?entry=small_activerecord_sti_gotcha
View Articleacts_as_crime_against_orm
Not a reference to the ORM patent case. Rather an ode to AR’s serialization backdoor. Amazing how much win you can get for swapping a bit of a purity. We use this technique extensively with SSC....
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