It's too major of a change to make imo and there's just too many tutorials/docs out there that reference Class Model < ActiveRecord::Base. To me, it makes sense that a model "inherits from" ActiveRecord::Base because that's where a model gets its methods from.
----- Ryan Bigg Freelancer http://frozenplague.net On 10/10/2008, at 9:01 AM, Manfred Stienstra wrote: > > > On Oct 9, 2008, at 7:58 PM, S. Brent Faulkner wrote: >> >>> One of the things about the Rails code that people tend to frown >>> upon >>> is the Base class. I was wondering if anyone ever considered >>> replacing >> >> Can you point me in the direction of some discussion of what's wrong >> with the "Base class" that people "frown upon"? > > I don't know of any articles that talk about this, I've mostly > discussed it face-to-face. > > And example of a project that changed their API is Datamapper, they > went from: > > class Author < DataMapper::Base; end > > To > > class Author; include DataMapper::Resource; end > >> Just wondering, since I don't recall a problem off-hand? > > There is no problem in the sense that tests are failing or a feature > is broken. It's just weird to have a class with a non-descriptive > name. > > I get the feeling that the Base class was created because David wanted > to create a namespace named ActiveRecord to prevent conflicts but also > wanted to have something you could inherit from. > ActiveRecord::ActiveRecord is weird, so it ended up being > ActiveRecord::Base. I personally think ActiveRecord::Model or just > ActiveRecord would have been a better name. > > I see a lot of people using this as an idiom in other Ruby libraries > and applications because they learn their first Ruby by developing a > Rails applications, even though this idiom might not fit their > project. > > Manfred > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" 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/rubyonrails-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
