Ruby on Rails

hi,

i see the line

if defined?(Rails)

more and more in gems and other require statements. right now im looking at a gem and the line 
if defined?(Rails)
 
is being called prior the first constructor of a class. this seems to be kinda related to autoload rails things, but im not sure. 
what is it? if someone could shed some light on it. thx
 

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