Pro Active Record

Databases with Ruby and Rails

Co-authored by thoughtbot President Chad Pytel and CTO Jon Yurek, Pro Active Record: Databases with Ruby and Rails helps you take advantage of the full power of your database engine from within your Ruby programs and Rails applications. Active Record, part of the magic that makes the Rails framework so powerful and easy to use, is the model element of Rails model/view/controller framework. Its an object-relational mapping library enabling you to interact with databases from both Ruby and Rails applications.