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Episode #196 - August 9, 2011

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We SimpleCov Thin Datagrids, talk Sequel, bump Rubygems, build Admin interfaces, and mention a new Rails RC as well on this episode of Ruby5.

This episode is sponsored by Top Ruby Jobs. Everyone deserves to love their job (and it's probably in Ruby).

  • Top Ruby Jobs
  • Rubygems 1.8.7
  • SimpleCov
  • Datagrid
  • Thin Models
  • sequel_rails3
  • Rails Backends
  • Rails 3.0.10.rc1
  • Ruby5

Making ActiveRecord models thin Jump to Story

Piotr Solnica recently wrote a blog post explaining how to write a well defined model API in a way that controller actions do not use ActiveRecord finders and, in fact, don’t interact with ActiveRecord at all. This keeps your ActiveRecord models thin, and focuses on splitting your business logic into more, separate, focused classes.

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