In my opinion Arel is one of the greatest and most underestimated gems. Of course today Arel is also one of the most used gems because it’s shipped in Rails, but how many people use it actively? And why would they?
Since Rails 3 Arel is the base block of ActiveRecord. Every time you pass a hash to where, it goes through Arel eventually. Rails exposes this with a public API that we can use when we have to write complex queries.
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