Rails Trace

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.

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Puma
Railties
Action Pack
Rack
Active Support
Active Record
Concurrent
Action View
i18n
sqlite3
Active Model
Blog Application
Ruby Standard Library

Created by Chris Zetter in a tribute to Rails and its many contributors.

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