What has happened to Arel

A May Of WTFs
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Just saw this PR which honestly makes me ಠ_ಠ

That would be a solved problem already if Arel was a public interface :man_shrugging:

Two things I’ve already done in multiple codebases:

class ApplicationRecord < ActiveRecord::Base
  def self.[](column)
    arel_table[column]
  end
end

module Arel
  module Predications
    alias_method :>, :gt
    alias_method :<, :lt
    alias_method :>=, :gteq
    alias_method :<=, :lteq
    alias_method :"!=", :not_eq
    alias_method :==, :eq
  end
end

where(Post[:created_at] <= 30.days.ago)

This solves the same problem as the above PR without introducing anything new to the framework, and it’s much more flexible than the symbol-parsing because you can use it in additional contexts, like

select([Post[:author].as("author_name")])
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