ActiveRecord is great, but could be better. Here are some tweaks for it.

Adds a symbol attribute type to activerecord

A :ulid attribute type for Active Record: every record gets its own ULID, optionally prefixed, generated when the record is built.

Provides soft deletion and automatic restoration of records and their dependent associations.

Extend ActiveRecord uniqueness validations with via: :db option.

Batch updating for ActiveRecord models

Update ActiveRecord counter and update instance value

Introduces update_in_bulk(), a method to update many records in a table with different values in a single SQL statement.

Updates ActiveRecord records only when they match a condition in the database, atomically, as part of the UPDATE statement.

Support MySQL's INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE in ActiveRecord

Allows database connections to be defined as URLS, then converted to hash for use in ActiveRecord

activerecord-utils - utilities (e.g. random, alias_attr, etc.) for activerecord

active_record_uuid is a nice gem that add uuid supports to your activerecord models (MySQL). It allows you to store uuid in various formats: binary (16 bytes), base64 (24 bytes), hexdigest (32 bytes), or string (36 bytes), and query back with uuid string.

Installs blah blah blah

UUID extension for ActiveRecord

Order for UUID

Extends activerecord validations with helpers

ActiveRecord adapter for Vertica databaes

SQL views with ActiveRecord

Helpers for using live and materialized views in ActiveRecord