Rails design patterns - the big picture

A design pattern is a repeatable solution to solve common problems in a software design. When building apps with the Ruby on Rails framework, you will often face such issues, especially when working on big legacy applications where the architecture does not follow good software design principles.This article is a high-level overview of design patterns that are commonly used in Ruby on Rails applications. I will also mention the advantages and disadvantages of using design patterns as, in some cases, we can harm the architecture instead of making it better.