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The Ruby Workshop

You're reading from   The Ruby Workshop Develop powerful applications by writing clean, expressive code with Ruby and Ruby on Rails

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838642365
Length 544 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dániel Szabó Dániel Szabó
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Akshat Paul Akshat Paul
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Peter Philips Peter Philips
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Cheyne Wallace Cheyne Wallace
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Writing and Running Ruby Programs FREE CHAPTER 2. Ruby Data Types and Operations 3. Program Flow Ruby Methods 5. Object-Oriented programming with Ruby 6. Modules and Mixins 7. Introduction to Ruby Gems 8. Debugging with Ruby 9. Ruby Beyond the Basics l 10. Ruby Beyond the Basics ll 11. Introduction to Ruby on Rails l 12. Introduction to Ruby on Rails ll Appendix

Anatomy of a Rails application

Inside our citireview application directory reside the auto-generated files and folders that came when we created our application with the automatic scripts included in the Rails gem. The following are the different components that make up the anatomy of a Rails application, along with their descriptions:

  • app/

    This folder contains models, controllers, views, helpers, mailers, jobs, and assets for a Rails application. Most of the application-specific code files are placed in this directory.

  • bin/

    This folder contains various scripts that set up, update, and run the Rails application.

  • config/

    In this folder, we keep various configuration files related to routes, databases, environments, and initializers.

  • config.ru

    This file is used by a Rack-based server to start the application.

  • db/

    This folder contains all the files related to databases, such as migrations, schemas, and seed files.

  • Gemfile, Gemfile.lock

    With Gemfile, you can specify...

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