Beginning Rails 6: From Novice to Professional

© Brady Somerville, Adam Gamble, Cloves Carneiro Jr and Rida Al Barazi 2020

B. Somerville et al.Beginning Rails 6https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5716-6_6

6. Advanced Active Record: Enhancing Your Models

Brady Somerville¹ , Adam Gamble², Cloves Carneiro Jr.³ and Rida Al Barazi⁴

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Bowling Green, KY, USA

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Gardendale, AL, USA

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Hollywood, FL, USA

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FONTHILL, ON, Canada

 

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 ...