Alessandro BAFFA 682075
“Advanced Technologies for the Web” course

• Ruby on Rails framework
– Introduction
– Architecture: controller, model, view
– Consideration
• AJAX
– How it works
• The Rails way
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• “A full stack, open source Web framework”
• Written in Ruby code, a modern object-oriented language
• Model – View – Controller (MVC) based
• It uses the philosophy of “convention over configuration”, that
avoids developers to spend a lot of time on configuration files
• It builds-in many utilities: full unit testing
framework, generator code, support for web services,
receiving e-mails, Ajax support
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