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ActiveRecord was neither the first ORM nor the best. Hibernate in Java was years ahead when AR came out - but arguably, Ruby (as opposed to Java/Spring) made it
by postexitus 1y ago
ActiveRecord was neither the first ORM nor the best. Hibernate in Java was years ahead when AR came out - but arguably, Ruby (as opposed to Java/Spring) made it a lot more accessible.
- turbofreak 1y agoI’d go so far as to say most of Rails came from “look at Java, and don’t do that” sort of approach. Which is absolutely warranted.
- pmontra 1y agoIn my case it was 3 weeks of work on Java redone in 3 days of Rails without even knowing Ruby yet. Hibernate could have been wonderful (I don't have fond memories of it) but AR was much much better to use.
- Lio 1y agoI have a similar story. I saw the Rails book in a library and decided to give a go. It was so easy to overtake what I was working on with Hibernate and Spring.