What is ruby on rails?

joshua · #1 (**permalink**) 06-06-2007, 07:39 AM

Can someone tell me what is ruby on rails?
Is it a new language and what do you use it for?
Can you give example of sites that uses it?

Symbyo SEM · #2 (**permalink**) 04-27-2009, 12:49 PM

Ruby on Rails is a new website development framework designed for rapid development, ease of extensibility, and ease of ongoing maintenance. Ruby is the language used to build it. We will talk about both. Both have gained rapid popularity in the past few years. Ruby's popularity is roughly 70% that of Microsoft's C#, and gaining. It has likely already been ported to your favorite platform. Rails benefits from Ruby's special properties.

couponmeup · #3 (**permalink**) 05-07-2009, 01:03 PM

I am not sure that that popularity can be substantiated.

Ruby is an object oriented programming language.
Rails is a framework that makes web programming in Ruby easier.
Often called RoR.

tanja · #4 (**permalink**) 08-27-2009, 08:59 PM

I thought that it`s a new song of Kaizer Chiefs????!!!!!!!!

jason · #5 (**permalink**) 08-30-2009, 03:08 AM

Three important tools for Ruby on rails are:

Debugger, Profiling and ERb (Embedded Ruby)

vikramrandhawa · #6 (**permalink**) 09-30-2011, 12:07 PM

Ruby on Rails is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language.Ruby on Rails is separated into various packages, namely ActiveRecord (an object-relational mapping system for database access), ActiveResource, ActionPack, ActiveSupport and ActionMailer.

shanmarsh2 · #7 (**permalink**) 10-16-2011, 12:51 AM

Is ruby on rails being used widely or not and what is its main benefit.
Any expert post a tutorial over ruby on rails.