"Pro Active Record" helps you take advantage of the full power of your database engine from within your Ruby programs and Rails applications. A... read full description
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May 19, 2010
Andypants
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Firstly, this book isn't terribly "pro", really the only audience that can benefit from it would be folks with lots of DBMS experience, lots of SQL experience, lots of ORM experience, but no ActiveRecord experience. I'll grant that it goes more in-depth than the "activerecord chapter" in your typical rails book.
ActiveRecord definitely has enough going on with it to justify an entire book about it, especially when you're new to ruby and trying to make a web applic More...
ActiveRecord definitely has enough going on with it to justify an entire book about it, especially when you're new to ruby and trying to make a web applic More...
Oct 17, 2007
James
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Right at the start of Pro Active Record the authors address a possible problem some may have with it: that there’s not enough in Active Record to warrant a full book. They point out that the basics are well covered as sections elsewhere but that this is the first book to really dig into working with legacy schema and other ‘advanced’ uses. That’s fair enough, but after reading the book I am still left with the question of why, then, they dedicate the first half to covering ActiveRecord’s most ba
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