Abbreviated as
RoR,
Ruby on Rails (also
referred to as just Rails) is an
open source Web
application framework, written in
Ruby (
object-oriented
programming language), for developing database-backed
Web applications. RoR closely follows the
Model-View-Control (MVC) pattern, where models, views and controllers are fully
integrated in a seamless fashion. Rails is a pure Ruby development environment
that allows for real-world
applications to be
developed in less
code and with a minimum of
configuration.
Ruby on Rails was created by David Heinemeier Hansson, a partner at 37signals,
then extended and improved upon by a core team and hundreds of open-source
contributors. Rails is released under the MIT license. Ruby is available under
the Ruby License.
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