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Gregg Pollack
Laser-Tentacle Reinforcement Specialist, Envy Labs

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Gregg Pollack lives in Orlando, Florida where he runs the Orlando Ruby Users Group, organizes BarCampOrlando, writes on his blog:”Rails Envy”http://www.RailsEnvy.com, and programs web applications in Ruby on Rails full time. He’s also sometimes known as the “Ruby on Rails” guy in the Mac parody commercials released earlier this year.

Sessions

8:30am Monday, 07/21/2008

Advanced ActiveRecord

Ruby, Tutorial
Location: E143/144

Gregg Pollack (Envy Labs), Jason Seifer (Twistedmind Inc)

Average rating:

(3.88, 8 ratings)

ActiveRecord, the glue between the database and Rails, is certainly one of the bigger reasons Rails has impressed so many people. We will walk through some advanced uses of the ActiveRecord Gem, including polymorphism, association proxies, the law of demeter, conductors, and creating plugins. Even if you're not a Ruby or Rails programmer, you'll find some useful design patterns hidden in this Gem. Read more.