The official Rails documentation: installation guide, tutorials, and API reference docs.

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Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

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Mar 2, 2022 · Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

This Guide is based on Rails 2.3. Some of the code shown here will not work in older versions of Rails.

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Once an incoming request is matched to a controller by the router, Rails creates an instance of that controller class and calls the method with the same name as the action.