ActiveRecord also showed up in Martin Fowler P of EAA book in 2004: http://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/activeRecord.html http://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/acti

ActiveRecord also showed up in Martin Fowler P of EAA book in 2004: http://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/activeRecord.html http://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/activeRecord.html I think somewhere in that book (Forewords or preface or whatnot) he also mentioned DHH's help/contribution to the book. As much as Rails community hates Enterprise, lots of patterns that Rails was built upon showed up in that book as gulp "Enterprise" patterns gulp