First published at Tuesday 28 August 2007 Warning: This blog post is more then 17 years old – read and use with care. It is not really Active Record (AR) which sucks but the implied, perhaps just misinterpreted, common usage as an ORM (object relational mapping). To summarize the following blog post in one sentence, so that you may skip reading it: Active Record may be used to implement ORM, but i
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