Interestingly, I found this question on Stack Overflow which got a response from Bob himself.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1968569/do-we-use-rails-activerecord-as-a-hybrid-structure-i-e-data-structureobject On Sunday, 11 September 2011 at 18:35, Stuart Liston wrote: > Hi again guys > > Since I know you like to get philosophical, I thought I'd throw out another > question, one that's been bothering me a little. The answer may be obvious to > everyone except me. > > What do y'all think about having business logic in ActiveRecord model classes? > > I often see a bunch of methods in ActiveRecord classes, but that seems to be > contradictory to the advice in Uncle Bob's Data Structures vs Objects chapter > in Clean Code. > > It would be interesting to learn where everyone sits on this one… > > Do you mix it up together? Do you always write your business objects as a > layer of abstraction to provide something of an api for your AR model > classes? Does it depend on the size of the app? > > Cheers, > Stu > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
