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The other day, I came across the following code in a Rails project of mine:
value = SystemSetting[:some_key_here].to_i
Hmm, I could not recoqnize SystemSetting, so I guessed it was something a colleague of mine had introduced while I was away from the project. I guessed it to be an associative array, setup in the rails environment files, [...]

You can say what you want about the way ActiveRecord pluralizes table names. I for one, do not like it much! But hey, I could get used to it, so what the heck. But one naming convention I noticed that I have taken with me back into Java land, is the one about naming properties [...]