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diff --git a/railties/guides/source/engines.textile b/railties/guides/source/engines.textile index db2db05e57..6be347e1a5 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/engines.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/engines.textile @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ endprologue. h3. What are engines? -Engines can be considered miniature applications that provide functionality to their host applications. A Rails application is actually just a "supercharged" engine, with the +Rails::Application+ class inheriting from +Rails::Engine+. Therefore, engines and applications share common functionality but are at the same time two separate beasts. Engines and applications also share a common structure, as you'll see througout this guide. +Engines can be considered miniature applications that provide functionality to their host applications. A Rails application is actually just a "supercharged" engine, with the +Rails::Application+ class inheriting from +Rails::Engine+. Therefore, engines and applications share common functionality but are at the same time two separate beasts. Engines and applications also share a common structure, as you'll see throughout this guide. Engines are also closely related to plugins where the two share a common +lib+ directory structure and are both generated using the +rails plugin new+ generator. |