RailsConf Nostalgia: Remembering ActiveResource | Hashrocket

This year at the final RailsConf, the atmosphere was incredibly nostalgic and celebratory, if perhaps a little bittersweet. Many of the talks spent time looking back on how far we've come, including Robby Russell's "The Rails Features We Loved, Lost, and Laughed At". Robby's talk brought back to light an old library that I hadn't thought about or used in years, ActiveResource. Once it was mentioned, it seemed like it kept cropping up during the conference, from DHH's fireside chat, to conversations in the hallway track, to notes on the public board about things people would like to see more of. So what is it, and why was it ultimately dropped from Rails? Let's talk about it! .