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Rails 5's ApplicationRecord is the place to put generic model logic

Arne Hartherz
June 14, 2017Software engineer at makandra GmbH

Since Rails 5, domain models inherit from ApplicationRecord by default.

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This is the place to put code that should be available in all your application's models.
There is no reason to monkey-patch ActiveRecord::Base when following that practice.

Posted by Arne Hartherz to makandra dev (2017-06-14 21:55)