In Rails 3.0, a Rails::Application object was introduced which is nothing more than an Engine but with the responsibility of coordinating the whole boot process.
Initialization
Rails::Application is responsible for executing all railties, engines and plugin initializers. It also executes some bootstrap initializers (check Rails::Application::Bootstrap) and finishing initializers, after all the others are executed (check Rails::Application::Finisher).
Configuration
Besides providing the same configuration as Rails::Engine and Rails::Railtie, the application object has several specific configurations, for example “allow_concurrency”, “cache_classes”, “consider_all_requests_local”, “filter_parameters”, “logger”, “reload_plugins” and so forth.
Check Rails::Application::Configuration to see them all.
Routes
The application object is also responsible for holding the routes and reloading routes whenever the files change in development.
Middlewares
The Application is also responsible for building the middleware stack.
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- MODULE Rails::Application::Bootstrap
- MODULE Rails::Application::Finisher
- CLASS Rails::Application::Configuration
- CLASS Rails::Application::Railties
- CLASS Rails::Application::RoutesReloader
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# File railties/lib/rails/application.rb, line 44 def inherited(base) raise "You cannot have more than one Rails::Application" if Rails.application super Rails.application = base.instance Rails.application.add_lib_to_load_path! ActiveSupport.run_load_hooks(:before_configuration, base.instance) end
# File railties/lib/rails/application.rb, line 115 def env_config @env_config ||= super.merge({ "action_dispatch.parameter_filter" => config.filter_parameters, "action_dispatch.secret_token" => config.secret_token, "action_dispatch.show_exceptions" => config.action_dispatch.show_exceptions }) end
# File railties/lib/rails/application.rb, line 141 def default_middleware_stack ActionDispatch::MiddlewareStack.new.tap do |middleware| if rack_cache = config.action_controller.perform_caching && config.action_dispatch.rack_cache require "action_dispatch/http/rack_cache" middleware.use ::Rack::Cache, rack_cache end if config.force_ssl require "rack/ssl" middleware.use ::Rack::SSL end if config.serve_static_assets middleware.use ::ActionDispatch::Static, paths["public"].first, config.static_cache_control end middleware.use ::Rack::Lock unless config.allow_concurrency middleware.use ::Rack::Runtime middleware.use ::Rack::MethodOverride middleware.use ::Rails::Rack::Logger # must come after Rack::MethodOverride to properly log overridden methods middleware.use ::ActionDispatch::ShowExceptions, config.consider_all_requests_local middleware.use ::ActionDispatch::RemoteIp, config.action_dispatch.ip_spoofing_check, config.action_dispatch.trusted_proxies middleware.use ::Rack::Sendfile, config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header middleware.use ::ActionDispatch::Reloader unless config.cache_classes middleware.use ::ActionDispatch::Callbacks middleware.use ::ActionDispatch::Cookies if config.session_store middleware.use config.session_store, config.session_options middleware.use ::ActionDispatch::Flash end middleware.use ::ActionDispatch::ParamsParser middleware.use ::ActionDispatch::Head middleware.use ::Rack::ConditionalGet middleware.use ::Rack::ETag, "no-cache" if config.action_dispatch.best_standards_support middleware.use ::ActionDispatch::BestStandardsSupport, config.action_dispatch.best_standards_support end end end