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1. I think it goes to show how well the Rails and Merb teams were able to integrate. Things were a bit rocky in the early days of the merger though :) A big m
by technoweenie 16y ago
1. I think it goes to show how well the Rails and Merb teams were able to integrate. Things were a bit rocky in the early days of the merger though :) A big merger like that could easily have self destructed.
2. You should be able to do that in AR by adding to the class-level #columns collection yourself. I had a plugin for this years ago for validating contact models. I'd imagine it's even easier in 3.0 since ActiveModel requires attributes to be set.
3. I really like the work that Josh and the rest put into ActiveModel. It happened to materialize around the time various alternate datastores like Mongo started getting popular.