Ruby on Rails (Rails) is a powerful Web application framework based on the dynamic object-oriented (OO) language Ruby. Full support for Web 2.0 and Web services, and extremely rapid development capability, enable it to power high-traffic Web sites such as yellowpages.com and reliablehealth.com. Far from being yet another quick-and-dirty scripting environment, Rails incorporates important "programming in the large" features suited for scalability. This hands-on tutorial introduces Rails through a database-driven Web application that also showcases Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) and Web services.
Published in:
Software, IEEE
(Volume:25
,
Issue:
6
)
Date of Publication: Nov.-Dec. 2008