Rewriting Active Record
Jerod and Sean discuss the challenges and significance of rewriting a small subset of Active Record, the ORM and database library in Ruby on Rails. They delve into the complexity and bugs associated with Active Record, as well as the limited number of people familiar with its inner workings. Sean shares insights on the code base and the decreasing percentage of issues, while Jerod highlights Sean's journey from challenging Aaron Patterson to becoming the maintainer of Active Record.In this clip
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