Ruby on Rails

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ruby on Rails, often shortened to Rails or RoR, is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language. It is intended to be used with an Agile development methodology that is used by web developers for rapid development.Ruby on Rails was extracted by David Heinemeier Hansson from his work on Basecamp, a project management tool by 37signals (now a web application company). David Hansson first released Rails as open source in July 2004, but did not share commit rights to the project until February 2005.