Overview

Now that we've gone through the process of building our blog app with minimum Rails conventions, we're ready to go back through, make more use of Rails, and understand what it's doing and why.

From here, we'll start to focus more on how different parts of our application are the same, and understand how Rails conventions help simplify application development. It will be much more clear why these conventions exist, as well as why and how Rails helps us address them in the way that it does.

Just about every part of our app will change in this process, but we'll be refactoring our application from the outside in, which means that we'll kick things off with routes.