Pro ActiveRecord: Databases with Ruby and Rails (Paperback)

Description

Pro Active Record helps you take advantage of the full power of your database engine from within your Ruby programs and Rails applications. ActiveRecord, part of the magic that makes the Rails framework so powerful and easy to use, is the model element of Rails model/view/controller framework. Its an object-relational mapping library enabling you to interact with databases from both Ruby and Rails applications.

Because ActiveRecord is configured with default assumptions that mesh perfectly with the Rails framework, Rails developers often find they hardly need think about it at all. However, if you are developing in Ruby without Rails, or are deploying against legacy databases designed without Rails in mind, or you just want to take advantage of database-specific features such as large objects and stored procedures, you need the in-depth knowledge of ActiveRecord found in this book.

In Pro Active Record, authors Kevin Marshall, Chad Pytel, and Jon Yurek walk you through every step from the basics of getting and installing the ActiveRecord library to working with legacy schema to using features specific to each of todays most popular database engines, including Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, and more! You’ll come to a deep understanding of ActiveRecord that will enable you to truly exploit all that Ruby, Rails, and your chosen database platform have to offer.

《Pro Active Record》幫助您在Ruby程式和Rails應用程式中充分利用資料庫引擎的強大功能。ActiveRecord是Rails框架中使其強大且易於使用的魔法元素之一，它是Rails模型/視圖/控制器框架中的模型元素。它是一個物件關聯映射庫，使您能夠在Ruby和Rails應用程式中與資料庫互動。

由於ActiveRecord已經根據與Rails框架完美契合的預設假設進行配置，因此Rails開發人員通常發現他們幾乎不需要考慮它。然而，如果您在沒有Rails的情況下開發Ruby，或者在沒有考慮Rails的情況下部署遺留資料庫，或者只是想利用資料庫特定功能（如大型物件和儲存過程），您需要這本書中關於ActiveRecord的深入知識。

在《Pro Active Record》中，作者Kevin Marshall、Chad Pytel和Jon Yurek將引導您從獲取和安裝ActiveRecord庫的基礎知識到處理遺留架構，再到使用當今最流行的資料庫引擎（包括Oracle、MS SQL、MySQL等）的特定功能！您將深入了解ActiveRecord，使您能夠充分利用Ruby、Rails和您選擇的資料庫平台所提供的一切。