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@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ Person, Post, etc.) and encapsulates the business logic that is specific to your application. In Rails, database-backed model classes are derived from `ActiveRecord::Base`. Active Record allows you to present the data from database rows as objects and embellish these data objects with business logic -methods. Although most Rails models are backed by a database, models can also -be ordinary Ruby classes, or Ruby classes that implement a set of interfaces -as provided by the Active Model module. You can read more about Active Record -in its [README](activerecord/README.rdoc). +methods. You can read more about Active Record in its [README](activerecord/README.rdoc). +Although most Rails models are backed by a database, models can also be ordinary +Ruby classes, or Ruby classes that implement a set of interfaces as provided by +the Active Model module. You can read more about Active Model in its [README](activemodel/README.rdoc). The _Controller layer_ is responsible for handling incoming HTTP requests and providing a suitable response. Usually this means returning HTML, but Rails controllers @@ -36,9 +36,11 @@ You can read more about Action View in its [README](actionview/README.rdoc). Active Record, Action Pack, and Action View can each be used independently outside Rails. In addition to them, Rails also comes with Action Mailer ([README](actionmailer/README.rdoc)), a library -to generate and send emails; and Active Support ([README](activesupport/README.rdoc)), a collection of -utility classes and standard library extensions that are useful for Rails, and may also be used -independently outside Rails. +to generate and send emails; Active Job ([README](activejob/README.md)), a +framework for declaring jobs and making them run on a variety of queueing +backends; and Active Support ([README](activesupport/README.rdoc)), a collection +of utility classes and standard library extensions that are useful for Rails, +and may also be used independently outside Rails. ## Getting Started |