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How Rails Actually Knows Which Controller to Execute

Following a request from the router to the controller action.

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    Part 1: How Rails Actually Knows Which Controller to Execute

    “Rails feels magical… until you realize every bit of that magic is carefully engineered.” If you’ve built a Rails application, you’ve probably written something like this: Started your server…...

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    How Rails Actually Knows Which Controller to Execute Medium

    Part 2: How Rails Actually Knows Which Controller to Execute

    At this point, our request has finally reached the router. Rails already knows one thing. It needs to find which controller should handle this request. Seems easy, right? Not really. Imagine you’re...

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