With the rate at which Rails is changing and a good chunk of the agile rails book needing quite an overhaul to be updated to the current version, wouldn't chapters in a book on the actual implementation of (parts of) rails be even more prone to going out of date? Writing a book that contains this information is definitely interesting from a code design perspective, but definitely not from a "this is how things are implemented" in rails perspective.
I've written rails patches myself (including some for ActiveRecord) and I gained a pretty good understanding from this exercise alone. I still recommend this approach to figuring out how ActiveRecord works; you'll get to know parts of ActiveRecord quite intimately this way and are always working with current code. Just my 2 cents. On 6/29/06, Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Pete- I've been toying with a few chapters of a book to do just that. About half is API and uses. Then the other half of the book explains *how* it works. And some of the fun/cool tricks going on inside in the guts to make the usibility so simple. But, its quite a while from being done... -hampton. On 6/29/06, Peter Michaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > Hi, > > I've used Rails quite a bit. I want to understand the major Rails > components well enough to read the Rails source without great > struggle. Eventually I'd like to know how all the components are wired > together but I'd be happy to start with understanding Active Record > thoroughly. For me, the best way to understand something is to build > it. I imagine building a simple version of Active Record with just one > type of validation, one type of association, and one database adapter. > A stripped down Active Record with the same file and class/module > structure as the real thing. Does a tutorial about this sort of > exercise exist? Would a tutorial about this be helpful for others? Is > there anyone who can direct me to the most important parts of Active > Record? (I've looked through David Black's book and it doesn't seem to > cover the detail of Rails I'm interested in learning.) > > Thanks, > Peter > _______________________________________________ > Rails-core mailing list > Rails-core@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-core > _______________________________________________ Rails-core mailing list Rails-core@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-core
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