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Pro Active Record: Databases with Ruby and Rails
Pro Active Record helps you take advantage of the full power of your database engine from within your Ruby programs and Rails applications. ActiveRecord, part of the magic that makes the Rails framework so powerful and easy to use, is the model element of the Rails Model-View-Controller framework. It's an object-relational mapping library enabling you to interact with data
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Paperback, 280 pages
Published
June 1st 2007
by Apress
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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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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 application. This book covers a lot of ...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 application. This book covers a lot of ...more
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