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364: Constructive vs Predicative Data



December 6th, 2022  •  34 mins 7 secs  •  Download (34.4 MB)  •  Link with Timestamp

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Stephanie and Joël attended RubyConf Mini, and both spoke there. They discuss takeaways and highlights from the conference.

The core idea for this episode is explained in this article: Constructive vs. Predicative Data. This came up recently in a conversation at thoughtbot about designing a database schema and what constraints could be encoded in the schema directly versus needing some kind of trigger or Rails validation to cover it.