Tag Archives: activerecord

The State of Ruby ORM

Posted by on November 29, 2011 37 comments

We have a lot of different Object-Relational Mapper implementations in Ruby (and a ton and a half of Mongo mappers ;)) and it’s probably a good thing. It seems like the only ORM that really matters right now is ActiveRecord …

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Making ActiveRecord Models Thin

Posted by on August 1, 2011 37 comments

“Skinny Controller, Fat Model” is a well known best practice in Ruby community. Everybody seems to agree with it and follows it. It’s pretty clear what a skinny controller is. The question is what is a fat model and what …

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