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Last active October 1, 2016 19:54 — forked from armandofox/activerecord1.rb
activerecord1.rb
field = Movie.new(:title => 'Title',
:release_date => '21-Apr-89', :rating => 'PG') #just makes a new object, doesn't add it to DB
field.save! #now it's saved in DB, the '!' means an exception will be thrown if it can't be saved
field.title = 'New' #changes the object field only, it is still 'Title' in the DB unless we save again
#### Read
pg_movies = Movie.where("rating = 'PG'")
ancient_movies = Movie.where('release_date < :cutoff and rating = :rating',
:cutoff => 'Jan 1, 2000', :rating => 'PG')
#### Another way to read
Movie.find(3) # exception if key not found