Ruby: Visual Quickstart Guide

16 RUBY ON RAILS

Ruby on Rails (www.rubyonrails.org), sometimes abbreviated as RoR or just Rails, is a Web development framework, designed to hasten the creation of dynamic Web sites. Like all frameworks, you need to spend some time learning how to properly use Rails, but once you understand the structure, rules, and syntax, you can create impressive and bug-free sites in remarkably little time. Ruby on Rails is a powerful tool and is largely responsible for the increased visibility and popularity of Ruby itself.

Like all frameworks, Rails expedites matters by doing a lot of the grunt work for you, from creating files, directories, and databases, to generating code. Although coverage of Rails easily warrants its own book, in just this one ...