Advanced ActiveRecord

In order to fully take advantage of the capability of your Web Framework, you have to know how to use it to solve complex problems. Although Rails ActiveRecord looks simple on the outside, there are many ways to tweak and extend this GEM that may not be apparent at first glance.

In this talk we’ll learn:

• How to take advantage of Polymorphic Relationships, and how to use them properly.

• How to extract logic from a model to create a reusable plugin.

• How to use association proxies to create powerful queries and readable code.

• How to obey the law of Demeter and create more maintainable code.

• How to use conductors to simplify multimodel forms.

• How to create non ActiveRecord models to abstract complex business logic out of our controllers.

• An overview of existing ActiveRecord plugins available and what they can help you with.