If you've ever read any beginner's articles about Ruby on Rails, you'll know that quite a bit of thought has been put into the code base that makes up the Rails framework. In this article, I'll help beginners take that next step by examining the inner workings of Rails.
In the development environment, changes to an application's source code are immediately visible; all we need to do is reload the corresponding page in a web browser. Speed is not a critical factor in this environment. Instead, the focus is on…
