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by bluerooibos 594 days ago
> I honestly do not understand ActiveRecord

What's not to understand? ActiveRecord exists to make queries easier to write and more readable - the same reason any library or tool is created.

Why don't we skip using tools like Ruby or Rails and just write everything in machine code instead? /s

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> ActiveRecord exists to make queries easier to write and more readable

It achieves only making queries much harder and much more opaque. It completely fails at that.