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Learn your tools. New developers will need to do the same. There's zero substitute for experience. Rails solves the most common problems easily.

It's extremely common to do things upon saving. Once you need to do more than one thing upon saving you then move to a more "event" based approach.

Rails was mystifying when I first picked it up, and parts of it are mystifying today. But something as trivial as the callback chain will be second nature after some time and several apps later.



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