Ruby on Rails/Introduction
Ruby on Rails, or often seen as RoR or just Rails, is an web application framework written in the programming language Ruby. Rails was created to be a project management tool for "37signals". Quickly, it became one of the most popular frameworks on the web and its ideas and philosophies has inspired many frameworks in different languages.
Features
edit- Rails supports agile software development
- Rails has a short and very intuitive language
- Single blocks of code are intended to be short and clear
- Rails is very flexible
- Rails comes with a testing framework
- The framework follows the principles of DRY
- Rails has some conventions: these allow quick development and consistent code
- Rails uses the MVC-Architecture
- Rails comes with an integrated server for local testing
- Applications with Rails are RESTful