The next meeting of RubyJax will be held this Thursday evening at 7:00 PM (directions).
Obie Fernandez will be giving a talk about Advanced Active Record. Active Record is an ORM library used by Ruby on Rails and other ruby frameworks.
Obie’s talk may or may not cover the following Advanced Active Record topics:
- What is Active Record
- How to use find, and make your own custom finders.
- The secret difference between belongs_to and has_one.
- What exactly is has_many :through.
- How to make a double polymorphic association with STI on both sides.
- How make a triple polymorphic table.
- The polymorphic doppleganger pattern.
- Why Martin Folwer is considered the grand-father of Rails.
- The internals of Active Record.
- How to write your own adapter to your own files system database.
- The best way to refactor Active Record associations.
- What to say to Josh Susser to get him to give your patch a +1.
- How make session data available to your models.
- The proper use of with_scope.
- How to use alias_method_chain.
- And many more.
The Schedule for the meeting is as follows:
- 7:00 People start to arrive, mingle, get a drink
- 7:15 “Official” Start To Meeting
- Next meeting announcement
- News
- 7:20 Warm up topic: Liger and Steve will try to get people to talk and interact.
- 7:30 Intro For Obie
- 7:31 Headline Topic: Obie Fernandez “Advanced Active Record”
- 8:30 Close out meeting
- Werewolf or something
- 8:50 Clean up
- 9:00 Leave.
