Agile Ajax 損 acts_without_database: Leverage ActiveRecord with Non-Database Backed Objects 損 Pathfinder Development
ActiveRecord comes with a lot of nice things that aren't really dependent on having a database backed model. The most obvious example of this is the validation framework baked into ActiveRecord. Also,...
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