I totally agree. That is how I started and learned much. From ActiveRecord::Base you can dig deeper into associations and anything else that interests you.Me, I learned the most when I tried to patch the odd behaviour of STI. I didn't quite had much success at the time, but I learned much and event
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 03:26:42PM -0700, Peter Michaux wrote:
> I've used Rails quite a bit. I want to understand the major Rails
> components well enough to read the Rails source without great
> struggle. Eventually I'd like to know how all the components are wired
One approach to get an overvie
With the rate at which Rails is changing and a good chunk of the agile
rails book needing quite an overhaul to be updated to the current
version, wouldn't chapters in a book on the actual implementation of
(parts of) rails be even more prone to going out of date? Writing a
book that contains this
Pete-I've been toying with a few chapters of a book to do just that.About half is API and uses. Then the other half of the book explains *how* it works. And some of the fun/cool tricks going on inside in the guts to make the usibility so simple.
But, its quite a while from being done...-hampton.On
On 6/29/06, Andrew Kaspick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Why not just implement some ActiveRecord patches? Seems like a good
way to learn how it works while helping improve the code base.
Patches could be the result but I'd like to have a solid understanding too.
Peter
__
Why not just implement some ActiveRecord patches? Seems like a good
way to learn how it works while helping improve the code base.
On 6/29/06, Peter Michaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I've used Rails quite a bit. I want to understand the major Rails
components well enough to read the Rails
Hi,
I've used Rails quite a bit. I want to understand the major Rails
components well enough to read the Rails source without great
struggle. Eventually I'd like to know how all the components are wired
together but I'd be happy to start with understanding Active Record
thoroughly. For me, the be
