Agile Web Development with Rails 7.2

Where Things Go

Rails assumes a certain runtime directory layout and provides application and scaffold generators, which will create this layout for you. For example, if we generate my_app using the command rails new my_app, the top-level directory for our new application appears as shown.

Joe asks:

So, Where’s Rails?

One of the interesting aspects of Rails is how componentized it is. From a developer’s perspective, you spend all your time dealing with high-level modules such as Active Record and Action View. There’s a component called Rails, but it sits below the other components, silently orchestrating what they do and making them all work together ...