From: Florian Gilcher <flo@...>
Date: 2008-05-29T03:48:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [ADV] New Beta of PickAxe3

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On May 28, 2008, at 8:01 PM, Dave Thomas wrote:

>
> On May 28, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Ryan Davis wrote:
>
>>
>> On May 28, 2008, at 09:07 , Dave Thomas wrote:
>>
>>> 2. I'm being more opinionated when it comes to the ways you should  
>>> write code. So, for example, I'm pushing class inheritance way  
>>> back, and instead focusing on mixins as the preferred way of  
>>> structuring the sharing of functionality. (Obviously, inheritance  
>>> still has a place, but I'd like to see less instances of code like  
>>> "class Product < ActiveRecord::Base')
>>
>> How about you just push against nonsensical names like Base?
>>
>> 	class Product < ActiveRecord
>>
>> makes _plenty_ of sense by itself. :P
>
> class Product
>  include ActiveRecord
>
> end
>
>
> makes even more... After all, a Product is not an ActiveRecord--it  
> uses the functionality.
>
>
> Dave

Actually - to extend the example - i really like the way DataMapper  
reads:

===
class Product
   include DataMapper::Persistence
end
===

Uses Persistence, provided by DataMapper.

That includes both the Task of the Module and the Source where it  
comes from.

The main problem of ActiveRecord::Base is that Base is such a generic  
name. And it implies that every object that has to do with AR is based  
on it.

Regards,
Florian Gilcher 
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