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.
7 months ago
Back when I used Rails the sentiment was: You don't need foreign keys, this is all handled by ActiveRecord.
I’m guessing that must have been the 00s then. I haven’t seen anyone downplay database constraints for a very long time.
Sometime between 2005 and 2012 I think. It definitely was for a stretch of time where Rails people said that.