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Re:Linus vs C++, again by jshen on Friday June 11, 2010 @12:04AM (#1422740)
" I also find that AR queries with a lot of options (order, group, select, limit etc) aren't much of an improvement in readability or abstraction over the raw SQL."

This was how I felt when I first scratched the surface, but by using find(...) instead of raw sql you leave open other options for the future like using :include

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Re:Linus vs C++, again by jonsmock on Friday June 11, 2010 @09:06AM (#1423700)
I think a lot of this will improve with Rails 3's new query syntax. It looks a lot like LINQ for .NET.

Yeah, a lot of times you're using the same keywords you might use in SQL, but the new chainable extensions are really nice for building up queries and reusing common chunks (either in LINQ or in Rails 3)

I should note that this new relational syntax is provided by a library called Arel (http://github.com/nkallen/arel)

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