Between 6:30 Tuesday AM, and 11:30 Wednesday PM, I managed to get about 3 hours sleep, due to a family emergency – thus, no post last night.<\/p>\n
We’ve started learning the nitty gritty of using ActiveRecord to interact with the database. I went to a Boston Ruby Group<\/a> event on Tuesday evening, where one of the speakers was speaking about ActiveRecord. I figured this would be a great way to get a little info on what we were about to start doing in class. However, it turns out the speaker, Ernie Miller was there to talk about his new effort, “norm”, which is a lighter-weight DB API<\/a>, intended to replace the now old & crufty ActiveRecord for the most common db access requirements. It was a great talk, and I have a feeling we’ll be seeing more of norm in the future. <\/p>\n In the mean time, the class has started digging into the process of learning to understand what ActiveRecord code looks looks like, how it works, and some cool shortcuts to save a bunch of typing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Between 6:30 Tuesday AM, and 11:30 Wednesday PM, I managed to get about 3 hours sleep, due to a family emergency – thus, no post last night. We’ve started learning the nitty gritty of using ActiveRecord to interact with the database. I went to a Boston Ruby Group event on Tuesday evening, where one of … <\/p>\n