ActiveRecord without Rails – Connecting and Running Migrations
This is a quick cliff notes of two blog posts I discovered while trying to figure out how to: Establish a connection to a (SQLite3) database via ActiveRecord outside of a Rails application. Run migrations to establish a base contents…
Why You Shouldn’t Rely on ActiveRecord Validations for Data Integrity
I started trying to answer questions on stackoverflow today. It’s a new thing so that’s exciting unto itself but I came across this question that made me feel there was something worth blogging about. To recap if you’re “too focused…
My Love/Hate Relationship with Ruby on Rails
I love Ruby as a programming language. I first discovered Ruby after having been a Java developer for almost a decade. This was long before Java introduced closures so Ruby’s blocks and iterator methods like #each and #map were a…