What is Ruby on Rails?

Ruby on Rails is an open source web framework that’s optimised for productivity and code quality.

Rails is a web development framework written in the Ruby language. It is designed to make programming web applications easier by making several assumptions about what every developer needs to get started. It allows you to write less code while accomplishing more than many other languages and frameworks.

Rails is opinionated software. That is, it assumes that there is a best way to do things, and it’s designed to encourage that best way of development and in some cases to discourage alternatives. If you learn the “The Rails Way”‚ you’ll probably discover a tremendous increase in productivity. If you persist in bringing old habits from other languages to your Rails development, and trying to use patterns you learned elsewhere, you may have a less happy experience.

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