CHAPTER 6
Advanced Active Record: Enhancing Your Models
Chapter 5 introduced the basics of Active Record and how to use it. This chapter delves more deeply into Active Record and teaches you how to enhance your models.
Model enhancement is a general term. It refers to endowing your models with attributes and capabilities that go beyond what you get from subclassing ActiveRecord::Base. A model contains all the logic that governs its citizenship in the world of your application. In the model, you can define how it interacts with other models, what a model should accept as a minimum amount of information for it to be considered valid, and other ...
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