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What is ActiveSupport::Notifications in Rails?
Updated May 24, 2026
Short answer
It is a pub-sub instrumentation API for monitoring Rails internals.
Deep explanation
It allows subscribing to lifecycle events like SQL queries or controller actions for performance monitoring.
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