Ruby on Rails, often shortened to Rails or RoR, is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language.
What is Ruby?
Ruby is a pure object-oriented programming language with a super clean syntax that makes programming elegant and fun.
What is Rails?
Rails is an open source Ruby framework for developing database-backed web applications. Rail’s guiding principles: less software and convention over configuration.
Less software means you write fewer lines of code to implement your application. Keeping your code small means faster development and fewer bugs, which makes your code easier to understand, maintain, and enhance. Very shortly, you will see how Rails cuts your code burden.
Convention over configuration means an end to verbose XML configuration files–there aren’t any in Rails! Instead of configuration files, a Rails application uses a few simple programming conventions that allow it to figure out everything through reflection and discovery. Your application code and your running database already contain everything that Rails needs to know!
Source: wikipedia, oreilly.
June 29th, 2010 at 3:31 am
thanks amit….. for RoR language information….