I feel as though this is a huge part of working with Rails as there is an incredible amount of magic that happens under the hood. From my limited experience, I

I feel as though this is a huge part of working with Rails as there is an incredible amount of magic that happens under the hood. From my limited experience, I think abstractions like these are helpful as long as there is consistency. This is easy to do by yourself but not always on a team; however, I think Rails has a good balance of conventions that allow indirection to be successful as long as the people writing the code use the same patterns and communicate effectively.