Some Background Theory

It can be useful to have an appreciation of Rails models, and how the Automation Engine encapsulates these as objects that we can program with. The objects represent the things that we are typically interested in when we write automation code, such as VMs, Clusters, Guest Applications, or even Provisioning Requests.

The following three sections cover some of this background Rails and object model theory. They are useful sections, but can be skipped on first read if required.