Anthony Eden
Shining a Light on the Dark Magic of ActiveRecord
This presentation will walk attendees through the internals of the ActiveRecord, exposing the techniques behind one of the most interesting parts of Ruby on Rails. I will cover the implementation of ActiveRecord::Base along with connection adapters, callbacks, mixins for adding behaviors, validations, migrations and more. Consider it a 45 minute crash course on the internals of ActiveRecord. By the end of this presentation I hope to have removed some of the mysticism associated with ActiveRecord and make it more accessible to everyone.
About Anthony
Anthony Eden is a software developer and technical manager with over 12 years of development experience, including 2 years of Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Anthony has spoken at RailsConf 2007, RailsConf Europe 2007, eRubycon 2007 as well as numerous ORUG and Honolulu Coders user group meetings. Anthony currently manages a team of software developers creating applications for the US Department of Defense.
