has_many :through - Symbols are not pretty strings - The Diigo Meta page

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  Éric D.
• 31 May 08
  

  ratbeard

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  Husein Choroomi

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  ruby symbols rails performance discussion

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  ratbeard on 2008-05-31
  About the misuses of symbols, and the performance characteristics of strings vs. symbols. Use strings for domain data and symbols for code constructs. One place to use a string over a symbol that I like is as the column names in a migration.

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