20,000 Leagues Under ActiveRecord

[adamnemecek]

http://patshaughnessy.net/2014/9/17/20000-leagues-under-activerecord

[tcopeland]

I can see the advantages of using the Arel predicates, but to me this:

    User.order("id desc")

reads better than:

    User.order(User.arel_table[User.primary_key].desc)

The latter seems a lot less expressive.

Also, Pat's book is great if you're curious about Ruby internals:

http://patshaughnessy.net/ruby-under-a-microscope