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Installing Rails
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The MVC Pattern
One of the conventions Rails follows is a pattern that's widely used in software development, called "Model, View, Controller", or MVC.
- The models write Ruby objects to the database, and read them out again later.
- The views show data to users, most often in the form of HTML webpages.
- Controllers respond to requests from users, usually by coordinating the model and the view.
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