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Yes I am curious about that. Someone else said that the Rails authors used to like and defend this pattern and that presumably they changed their mind. Maybe

Yes I am curious about that. Someone else said that the Rails authors used to like and defend this pattern and that presumably they changed their mind. Maybe because they ran into problems? I'm not at all close to the Ruby community but would love to know. https://lobste.rs/s/valayp/troublesome_active_record_pattern#c_z6woqa https://lobste.rs/s/valayp/troublesome_active_record_pattern...

dhagz 7y ago
That's my general impression. As Rails grew in popularity and was used for more and more complex things (with more and more complex database tables), they started to add in the raw query building parts of ActiveRecord. Though I think it was more that they wanted raw query functionality in the library and it made most sense to enhance the tool that already dealt with the database rather than add another alongside it.