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Jan 16 2018

Things I wish ActiveRecord had after using Ecto

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Things I wish ActiveRecord had after using Ecto
In this article, I'll write about few things I like about Ecto that aren't available in Active Record. It’s not meant to be a “Phoenix is better than Rails” rant as both frameworks provide really great things and we can all learn from each of them
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Ruby
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Rails

Writing tests are a must if you’re working on a production application. There’s two types of tests that we write: Unit and Integration
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Beyond Ruby
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Blast from the past
My RailsConf 2014 "all the little things" talk included a section where I asserted: duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction. And in the summary, I went on to advise: prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction.
Gem of the week
Bootsnap is a library that plugs into Ruby, with optional support for ActiveSupport and YAML, to optimize and cache expensive computations
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