Ruby on Rails

By,

Deven

Ruby is a programming language. It was created 20 years ago.  By most measures of programming language popularity, Ruby ranks among the top ten in popularity, and largely due to the popularity of Rails.


Like Java or the C language, Ruby is a general-purpose programming language, though it is best known for its use in web programming.

Rails  is a software library that extends the Ruby programming language.

It is software code that is added to the Ruby programming language. Technically, it is a package library  that is installed using the operating system command-line interface.

Rails is a framework for building websites. As such, Rails establishes conventions for easier collaboration and maintenance. These conventions are codified as the Rails API. The Rails API is documented online and described in books, articles, and blog posts. Learning Rails means learning how to use the Rails conventions and its API.

Rails combine the Ruby programming language with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create a web application that runs on a web server. Because it runs on a web server, Rails is considered a server-side or back end, web application development platform. Later, this article will describe web applications in greater depth and show why a web development framework is needed to build complex websites.

Features of Ruby:        

·         Easy to Learn

·         Open source

·         High Level Programming and Object oriented  like JAVA, ada etc.

·         Rich libraries

·         Very easy to extends

·         Less coding with fewer bugs.