[LRUG] Field definitions in AR models

[Klaus Hebsgaard]

I use this gem on a project:
https://github.com/ctran/annotate_models

It annotates the model with comments.

Don't know if that is what you are after?

Med Venlig hilsen / Best regards

Klaus Hebsgaard

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On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Thomas Buckley-Houston <tom at tombh.co.uk>
wrote:

> Thanks for the replies.
>
> I think Tim Diggins most gets what I'm on about, thanks :)
>
> My problem with poking around the console is that it's counter to the
> MVC philosophy of using the Model to describe your domain. Code *as*
> documentation and all that. In pretty much every other MVC framework
> and ORM I've come across, fields are described in the model. My
> question is really curiosity as to why this is? Is AR's fieldless
> models a known pattern? Or is there a historical reason in AR's
> development for it?
>
> PS Nice to see a fellow Buckley, Kerry, we're probably cousins thrice
> removed or something.
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