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authorGenadi Samokovarov <gsamokovarov@gmail.com>2015-12-12 14:25:00 +0100
committerGenadi Samokovarov <gsamokovarov@gmail.com>2015-12-16 10:30:09 +0100
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Introduce ApplicationRecord, an Active Record layer supertype
It's pretty common for folks to monkey patch `ActiveRecord::Base` to work around an issue or introduce extra functionality. Instead of shoving even more stuff in `ActiveRecord::Base`, `ApplicationRecord` can hold all those custom work the apps may need. Now, we don't wanna encourage all of the application models to inherit from `ActiveRecord::Base`, but we can encourage all the models that do, to inherit from `ApplicationRecord`. Newly generated applications have `app/models/application_record.rb` present by default. The model generators are smart enough to recognize that newly generated models have to inherit from `ApplicationRecord`, but only if it's present.
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-rw-r--r--railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/app_generator.rb6
-rw-r--r--railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/app/models/application_record.rb3
-rw-r--r--railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/plugin/templates/app/models/application_record.rb.tt6
3 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/app_generator.rb b/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/app_generator.rb
index 889154494d..9997cf3b35 100644
--- a/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/app_generator.rb
+++ b/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/app_generator.rb
@@ -293,6 +293,12 @@ module Rails
end
end
+ def delete_application_record_skipping_active_record
+ if options[:skip_active_record]
+ remove_file 'app/models/application_record.rb'
+ end
+ end
+
def delete_active_record_initializers_skipping_active_record
if options[:skip_active_record]
remove_file 'config/initializers/active_record_belongs_to_required_by_default.rb'
diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/app/models/application_record.rb b/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/app/models/application_record.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..10a4cba84d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/app/models/application_record.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+class ApplicationRecord < ActiveRecord::Base
+ self.abstract_class = true
+end
diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/plugin/templates/app/models/application_record.rb.tt b/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/plugin/templates/app/models/application_record.rb.tt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8aa3de78f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/plugin/templates/app/models/application_record.rb.tt
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+<%= wrap_in_modules <<-rb.strip_heredoc
+ class ApplicationRecord < ActiveRecord::Base
+ self.abstract_class = true
+ end
+rb
+%>