Ruby on Rails is a web application framework that allows developers to create sophisticated web applications quickly and efficiently. Many in the open source community view RoR as the most hyped web development technology of 2005.
This lens explains RoR in simple terms and offers pointers on how to get started. (It's also still a work in progress, and I hope to have it filled out soon.)
This lens explains RoR in simple terms and offers pointers on how to get started. (It's also still a work in progress, and I hope to have it filled out soon.)
Ruby vs. Rails?
What's Ruby? What's Rails? What's the difference?
Let's start with the basics:
- Ruby is a programming language, like C++ or PHP. It has been around since the early 90s. To know Ruby is to love Ruby, and we've devoted an entire lens to it: Ruby Lens.
- Rails is a web application development framework. It happens to be written entirely in Ruby, which is why it's also called Ruby on Rails. You can learn more about it by reading the rest of this lens.
Official Ruby on Rails Blog
blog.rubyonrails.org
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byRuby on Rails Essential Links
- Ruby on Rails API Reference
- The basic API reference. Very, very useful.
- Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide, 1st Ed
- A great book for learning Ruby
- Programming Ruby - Reference Page for Built-in Classes
- A very useful reference with all of the little things you keep forgetting -- the syntax to split an array, or get the keys from a hash.
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