What code runs when you request a page from a Ruby on Rails application?
Here is an annotated trace showing every method call within Rails and its dependencies. It is for an example application that loads a blog post from the database and renders a page containing the post's title.
Out of the box, Rails runs with the Puma web server. Puma is responsible for receiving HTTP requests through a web socket and parsing them into a format that Rails can understand.
The first methods we see are called from Puma's Server#run. When Puma this method creates a pool of threads that wait for requests. The different threads allow Puma to respond to requests concurrently.
Created by Chris Zetter in a tribute to Rails and its many contributors.
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