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Ruby on Rails Open source web application Framework
What’s Ruby on Rails?
- A Full stack web development framework (but not only for web)
- Using the mighty Ruby Language.
History
- Rails was developed by David Heinemeier Hansson of 37 Signals
- Built for BaseCamp Application
- Later ‘Open Sourced’
- Acceptance within a year.
RoR Philosophies
- DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself)
- Convention over Configuration
- Simplicity – (Easy design patterns)
- Effective MVC
- Agile Methodologies
- Open source
Advantages
- Philosophies == Advantages
Advantages
- Even then,
Advantages
- Super Rapid Application development
- Full-Stack
- Lightweight
- Extensive testing framework
- Design patterns support
- Code Generation
- Powerful HTTP mapping
- Built-in AJAX support
- Object-Relational Mapping
- Helpers
- Migrations
- Lots of plugins
- Source Control Integration
- Inflections
Whats more?
- Rake
- ActionPack
- ActiveRecord
- ActionMailer
- ActionWebservice
- Capistrano
- Prototype
- RJS
- Needle
Platforms supported
- Linux
- Most of the Unix flavors
- Windows
- Mac OS X
- Apache
- Lighttpd
- IIS
- Oracle
- MySQL
- Postgres
- MS SQL Server
- DB2
- SQLite
Who is supporting it?
- Google
- IBM
- Revver
- Apple
- odeo
- Epson
- Basecamp
- Apple
- HCL
- Eines.de
- 43things
- Blinksale
- Kiko
- Slideshare.net
References
- Rubyonrails.com
- developer.apple.com/tools/rubyonrails.html
- Ruby-lang.org