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Are Functions Data? with Yehonathan Sharvit

Software Unscripted

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Ruby on Rails Unit Tests

Rails has this ORM called active record. Active record will like do all these things for you automatically. And in part because of that, like wanting to be able to write tests with a lot less and just represent things as immutable values. He made a tongue and cheek like alternative to active record called inactive record. The whole point was it's just data. We're not going to do any of this fancy stuff. It's just like represent things as immutable values.

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