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Explains what's ActiveRecord and how it might help you to get more productive
A tutorial for "how", after the introduction explains "what".
Explains the configuration options and schema, and provides some illustrative examples as well
Illustrates the usage of attributes to map fields and relations
Discuss approaches to achieve inheritance within your object model and map it correctly to the underlying database
Explains the Before* methods that can be overriden
This article explains the internals of ActiveRecord. How it extracts the mapping information, how far it goes validating it and so on.
Explains the SessionScope and TransactionScope classes
How ActiveRecord deals with schema creation and deletion, alternatives and which one is best for a specific scenario
Illustrates the usage of HQL
Presents the ActiveRecordValidationBase that is able to validate properties with predefined validators
Discuss the usage of multiple databases and the usage of nullable types
Something went wrong? Check what problems we had and how we work around them
Some recommendations
Active Record Internals
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Advanced usage
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An introduction
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Best practices
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Configuration Reference
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FAQ
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Getting Started
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Hooks
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Mappings
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Schema Pitfalls
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Scopes
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Troubleshooting
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Type hierarchy
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Using HQL
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Validation
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