# Nice O'Reilly blog post by Gregory Brown

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**Created:** [April 20, 2007, 3:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nice-oreilly-blog-post-by-gregory-brown/92545 "2007-04-20T15:58:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 3:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nice-oreilly-blog-post-by-gregory-brown/92545/1 "2007-04-20T15:58:15Z")

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Understanding ActiveRecord: A Gentle Introduction to the Heart of  
Rails (Part 1)

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Rails is advertised as a model-view-controller web framework. In this  
two-part article, we’ll be focusing on the M in MVC. Specifically,  
we’ll be talking about the object-relational mapping (ORM) software,  
ActiveRecord, that forms the core of any data-centric Rails  
application. ORM allows us to think in terms of objects and write in  
our programming language of choice (in this case, Ruby) while still  
getting the persistence and optimization benefits of SQL databases.