What is "ruby-on-rails"
Ruby on Rails is a free source framework for full-stack web applications created by David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) in 2004 using the programming language Ruby. It is a framework optimized for programmer fun and sustainable productivity making use of philosophies such as Configuration Convention, DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) and REST (Representational State Transfer).
It is based on architecture MVC (Model-view-controller), the application is separated into three different modules:
- Model (model)
- View (view)
- Controller ()
This isolates the business logic of the presentation layer, which makes maintenance extremely easy and fast.
Ruby != Ruby on Rails
The tag ruby-on-Rails is for issues related to framwork rails. This tag should be used for questions like:
- Rails MVC Patterns
- Rails Objects
- Rails methods
- Rails Gems
- Rails views
- Activerecord Object-Relational Mapping (ORM)
Questions about Ruby on Rails should not be marked with ruby unless the question is about the Ruby language in general, its syntax and libraries, or other issues not specific to Ruby on Rails.
Commune
Ruby on Rails has a very active and participatory community.
On-line documentation
People to follow
- David Heinemeier
- Yehuda Katz
- Fabio Akita ( brazilian )
- José Valim ( brazilian )
- Rafael França ( brazilian )
More information
- Wikipedia
- Ruby on Rails Official Site
- Ruby on Rails Brazilian Page ( may be out of date )
Learning resources
Where to learn about Ruby on Rails.
Official Guide
Books and booklets
- Agile Web Development with Rails 4, Sam Ruby
- Desenv. Agile for Web with Ruby on Rails, Caelum ( in Portuguese )
- Crafting Rails Applications, José Valim
Railscast.com
Video quick lessons produced by Ryan Bates, an excellent material for both beginners and experienced. There is plenty of free quality material, and there are also restricted classes for subscribers. Link