I have been writing Ruby on Rails apps for almost a decade now and I've come to notice that my speed of development inversely scales with how many decisions I have to make. A lot of these decisions come down to lack of structure. As great as figuring out things can feel, reaching the point where you're comfortable with the final design really is a good feeling.

Today I want to share with you, my opinionated best practices of building good ActiveRecord models.

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