You can play with it as much as you want until
you feel like you have a full grasp of how it all works.
If, in your coding or in playing around, you find that the library is not handling something
the way you would like it to, you can change it. And if you think others can benefit from that
change as well, you can submit it to the official distribution for inclusion and be a central part
of the future of Active Record. Incidentally, this leads us nicely to our next topic.
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The Future of Active Record
While it may seem like Active Record (and the related Ruby libraries) have appeared overnight
on the developer??™s landscape, it??™s actually taken years of thought and work by a variety of contributors
just to get where we are today. Still, it??™s true; in the big picture, Active Record is just
a baby. It has a lot of room to evolve and luckily, being open source software, it has a lot of
interested parties working on it, so the future should be a bright one.
At the time of this writing, there are only a few new additions in the edge version of
Active Record slated to be a part of the next release of Active Record.
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