Understanding the Rails Initialization process: Part 1 -- techno weenie

The Rails initialization process changed in subtle ways for Rails 1.2 due to a Dependencies rewrite, and some changes to plugins. If you’re interested in extending the Rails framework through plugins, it’s very important you understand the process. The secret to all this is kept in Rails::Initializer#process.Here are a couple key points: require_frameworks ... load_environment load_plugins load_ob