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Chad Fowler 4.35
Description:
ActiveRecord is one of the leakiest abstractions you'll ever use as a software developer. Becoming a true master of ActiveRecord requires you to embrace that fact and dig into its guts. Knowing how ActiveRecord really works makes you a much better ActiveRecord programmer.
This talk will take a close look at associations, named scopes, caching, query generation, migrations and more. You'll leave with a new level of understanding of ActiveRecord and the confidence to quickly find answers in the ActiveRecord source.
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Comments on this Talk
Chad is a great speaker and knows his topic. The picture above does not reflect current reality - he now has a short haircut and no facial hair.
markmzyk,
22 Feb 11:05 PM
This talk was packed with information. Chad hit the major points of the the code in rails and revealed how a lot of it works. It was great insight that will make working in Rails easier. Chad also delivered the content well, using a mixture of slides and source code.
I've been through much of the active record code before, and I still learned a few tricks from Chad's talk.
For one thing I learned about Ruby's autoload method.