[Rails] ActiveRecord for newbies

[Chris Brooks]

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 23:39:40 +1100, Gavin Sinclair
<gsinclair at soyabean.com.au> wrote:
> On Sunday, November 14, 2004, 10:29:21 PM, David wrote:
> 
> >> Am I missing a good tutorial or dev guide to just ActiveRecord?
> 
> > The API at http://ar.rubyonrails.org also serves as an introduction to
> > all the aspects of it. Each major section is prefaced with a textual
> > description of why and how. So that's a good start.
> 
> It is indeed, check out the README files, Chris.

That's where I've been hanging out.  I'm making progress; my comments
were more about relative friendliness rather than an outright
criticism.  Most of the intro stuff to rails is SO good that the
basics on ActiveRecord look poor in comparison.

The tutorial on testing, which I just finished yesterday, was outstanding.

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Chris Brooks
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