David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.

I think it was published in 2001.

It is one of the very few programming books that I have read many times over.

It's incredible.

In it,

Martin describes a bunch of different patterns of how to build business systems, essentially.

And Active Record is a little bit of a footnote in there.

The pattern is literally called Active Record.

You can look it up.

It's called Active Record.

I wasn't even creative enough to come up with a name of my own, but it allows the creation, the marriage of database and object orientation in a way that a lot of programmers find a little off-putting.

They don't actually want to pollute the beautiful object-oriented nature of that kind of programming with SQL.

There was a rant by Uncle Bob the other day about how SQL is the worst thing ever.

Blah, blah.

Okay, fine, whatever.

I don't care.

This is practical.

We are making crud applications.

You're taking things out of an HTML form and you're sticking them into a damn database.

It's not more complicated than that.