Learn Rails 5.2: Accelerated Web Development with Ruby on Rails

© Stefan Wintermeyer 2018

Stefan WintermeyerLearn Rails 5.2https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3489-1_3

3. ActiveRecord

Stefan Wintermeyer¹ 

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Bochum, Germany

 

ActiveRecord is a level of abstraction that offers access to a SQL database. ActiveRecord implements the architectural pattern Active Record.

 This is referred to as object-relational mapping (ORM) . I find it rather dry and boring, but if you have trouble going to sleep tonight, take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_relational_mapping .

One of the recipes for the success of Rails is surely the fact that it uses ActiveRecord. The programming and use “feels Ruby-like,” and it is much ...