Comment by panzi

7 months ago

Back when I used Rails the sentiment was: You don't need foreign keys, this is all handled by ActiveRecord.

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Lio  7 months ago

I’m guessing that must have been the 00s then. I haven’t seen anyone downplay database constraints for a very long time.

  • panzi  7 months ago

    Sometime between 2005 and 2012 I think. It definitely was for a stretch of time where Rails people said that.