Lady @Lady@cat.family

« Associations are extremely useful, but they are not magic. » unlike everything else in Rails

i’m rereading all the Rails Guides since i haven’t worked seriously with Rails since sometime in 2018 and like 90% of it is just me going “oh so that’s what that spelling means” and the remaining 10% is me digging through the source code and becoming gradually more horrified at what i unearth there

okay i’m gonna admit i thought there was going to be more to this chapter than there is

« During the normal operation of a Rails application, objects may be created, updated, and destroyed. » whew imagine if they mayn’t be

anyway, time to learn about the LIFE CYCLE of ACTIVE RECORD OBJECTS 🌎🌱🌧🌴🦒🦁🪦😭

it is a VERY cute tiger face

tiger is the only one which really surprised me here

things which are baby according to macOS character picker, in order of appearance :—

1. crying face
2. cat
3. chick
4. hatchling
5. baby bottle
6. tiger
7. human baby

today i learned that Litten’s fire attacks are hairballs that it sets alight

anyway moral of the story is google is better

not sure how this relates but 🆗

always get those two confused

me: in britain they don’t say “goal” they say “gaol”

me:

me: oh wait nvm that’s “jail”

you can’t use TWO SEPARATE METHODS OF CASE‐INSENSITIVE COMPARISON for DIFFERENT VALIDATORS

oh my fucking god rails is a mess

oh okay cool so ruby didn’t change the way String#casecmp works in version 3.0.0, they just made the documentation worse

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/3569/files#diff-430d86fdb6c4a558ab0f1b6648bbfae1720e8bde84f026e95a52740014752040L3400-L3418

😑

call and response

somebody: i want to call my model X but it has an irregular pluralization, Y; how do i specify that?

ruby on rails programmers: why not call your model Z?