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Ruby on Rails, a Web Framework

Architecture | October 01, 2004 | 0 comments

Rails is a new web framework (made public less then 3 months ago) that was developed in Ruby by David Heinsmeier Hanson while developing Basecamp for 37signals. With all the great documentation for Rails including a video presentation and tutorial as well as step-by-step how-to’s and a very active and helpful chat room you can pick up both Ruby and Rails in no time.

We are looking at moving over Protose.org to Rails. I played with it for a day or two a couple of weeks back and fell in love with both the framework and Ruby as a language. I have read many times of people saying that Ruby makes programming fun again and I have to say after my experience with it that I would have to agree.

Rails is made up of two components that implement the MVC (Model-View-Controller) architecture. Action Pack which is used for the view and controller and Active Record which is used for the Model.

Related Links:

• Rails
• Rails 10-Minute Tutorial
• David Hensmeier Hanson‚Äôs Blog
• Basecamp
• 37signals

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