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@@ -132,10 +132,10 @@ Creating Active Record Models
-----------------------------
It is very easy to create Active Record models. All you have to do is to
-subclass the `ActiveRecord::Base` class and you're good to go:
+subclass the `ApplicationRecord` class and you're good to go:
```ruby
-class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
+class Product < ApplicationRecord
end
```
@@ -168,11 +168,12 @@ What if you need to follow a different naming convention or need to use your
Rails application with a legacy database? No problem, you can easily override
the default conventions.
-You can use the `ActiveRecord::Base.table_name=` method to specify the table
-name that should be used:
+`ApplicationRecord` inherits from `ActiveRecord::Base`, which defines a
+number of helpful methods. You can use the `ActiveRecord::Base.table_name=`
+method to specify the table name that should be used:
```ruby
-class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
+class Product < ApplicationRecord
self.table_name = "my_products"
end
```
@@ -193,7 +194,7 @@ It's also possible to override the column that should be used as the table's
primary key using the `ActiveRecord::Base.primary_key=` method:
```ruby
-class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
+class Product < ApplicationRecord
self.primary_key = "product_id"
end
```
@@ -320,7 +321,7 @@ they raise the exception `ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid` if validation fails.
A quick example to illustrate:
```ruby
-class User < ActiveRecord::Base
+class User < ApplicationRecord
validates :name, presence: true
end
@@ -350,7 +351,7 @@ database that Active Record supports using `rake`. Here's a migration that
creates a table:
```ruby
-class CreatePublications < ActiveRecord::Migration
+class CreatePublications < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.0]
def change
create_table :publications do |t|
t.string :title
@@ -368,8 +369,8 @@ end
```
Rails keeps track of which files have been committed to the database and
-provides rollback features. To actually create the table, you'd run `rake db:migrate`
-and to roll it back, `rake db:rollback`.
+provides rollback features. To actually create the table, you'd run `rails db:migrate`
+and to roll it back, `rails db:rollback`.
Note that the above code is database-agnostic: it will run in MySQL,
PostgreSQL, Oracle and others. You can learn more about migrations in the