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This page aims to explain how to get started with Rails, an innovative and powerful development framework. It's perfect for creating code for blogs, forums, online communities, e-commerce and other projects.

What is Ruby on Rails?

Ruby on Rails (often shortened to just Rails) is an open-source Web 2.0 application framework written in Ruby. It is a real-world programming language that allows application development with less code, minimal configuration and maximum simplicity.
Ruby follows the Model-View-Controller architectural pattern, which allows developers to separate data (model) and user interface (view) in their applications and therefore they can re-organise data without having to re-code all the user interfaces.

  • DRY - Don't Repeat Yourself
    All information is in a single location, so the developer does not need to specify column names in class definitions. Ruby can retrieve this information from the database.
  • Convention over Configuration
    A developer only needs to specify unconventional aspects of their application. For example, if there's a class Sale in the model, the corresponding table in the database is called sales by default. It is only if someone deviates from this convention, such as calling the table "products_sold", that they need to write code regarding these names.

Did you know? Everyone is using Rails! Apple Computers has announced it will ship Ruby on Rails with Mac OS X in version 10.5, schedule for release in October 2007.

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