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Book · Martin Fowler, Dave Rice, Matthew Foemmel, Edward Hieatt, Robert Mee, Randy Stafford

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

Hansson connects Rails’ Active Record design with a pattern described in Fowler’s book.

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2:13:00 · YouTube
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Hansson praises the book and explains its influence on Active Record. His recalled publication year is uncertain; the author’s bibliographic page lists 2002. Timing marks the publisher paragraph start; the speech end is unknown.
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Hansson explains Active Record’s design and his preference for a direct relationship between application objects and database tables. →

Bibliographic sources

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture — bibliographic reference (external site) — Martin Fowler. Checked 2026-10-23.

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