Comments on: Notes from Reading ActiveRecord::Base

By: Madeline Petty

Madeline Petty — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 02:33:25 +0000

Nice notes. I personally didn’t know about the option of using a hash for conditional query params

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More ActiveRecord Notes — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:11:43 +0000

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By: Nicolas Blanco

Nicolas Blanco — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:15:29 +0000

You should never use attr_protected (which is blacklist technique) but attr_accessible instead (whitelist). IMHO, attr_protected should be deleted from AR.

By: keikun17

keikun17 — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:54:48 +0000

sweet. everything is known to me except for #1

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By: François Beausoleil

François Beausoleil — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:27:12 +0000

You should also mention #attr_accessible, which is a better for of #attr_protected.

By: Sammy

Sammy — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:18:47 +0000

> You can test if an attribute is nil or blank by doing the normal method call with an appended ‘?’

Boolean attributes will return false if value is false or nil.

Personally I prefer #blank? and #present? instead of this magic.

By: Sleeptillseven

Sleeptillseven — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:01:23 +0000

Thanks. That’s gonna save my head while digging in the AR jungle.

By: Craig P Jolicoeur

Craig P Jolicoeur — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:36:13 +0000

Nice notes. I personally didn’t know about the option of using a hash for conditional query params