Following on from my previous post here on different methods of configuring ActiveRecord, I’ve decided to go into more detail on this; more specifically into automatically loading assemblies and configuring ActiveRecord without much fuss. Included is an example project demonstrating automatically configuring your application with a single call, as well as an HttpModule that you can add to your web application that initliases ActiveRecord without a call at all.

The Question: What if I still want to use ActiveRecord, but don’t want all my objects to inherit from ActiveRecordBase or ActiveRecordBase<> because of all the functionality I already have in my base object? The Answer: ActiveRecordMediator.