Posts tagged activerecord

Mar02

Database Versioning

databases activerecord sequel datamapper | comments

Migrations bother me.

On one hand, migrations are the best solution we have for the problem of versioning databases. The scope of that problem includes merging schema changes from different developers, applying schema changes to production data, and creating a DRY representation of the schema.

Feb28

ActiveRecord Migrations Outside Rails

activerecord databases sinatra | comments

To use ActiveRecord’s migrations with Sinatra (or other non-Rails project), add the following to your Rakefile:

Sep14

Database URLs

activerecord databases datamapper sequel | comments

DataMapper and Sequel both use urls for configuring database connections:

Mar16

to_xml

activerecord rest | comments

When serving up an ActiveRecord as resource, you can use options like :only and :except to to_xml. But in most cases, you want the same fields served every time - on create, update, and get. So put the options into the class itself:

Nov13

ActiveRecord Setter Overloading

rails activerecord | comments

When overloading an ActiveRecord setter, I’ve often done this:

def name=(new_name)
  @old_name = name
  attributes['name'] = new_name
end

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Posts tagged activerecord

Database Versioning

ActiveRecord Migrations Outside Rails

Database URLs

to_xml

ActiveRecord Setter Overloading