What is Ruby on Rails?

Ruby on Rails is a full-stack web application framework written in the Ruby programming language. For someone non-technical, that might be a big sentence to swallow. It basically means that Rails provides the tools to write, test, and launch an application quickly without relying on outside components.

Rails makes commonplace development tasks much easier. While an end user might not care about the web server or testing tools a developer uses, these tools help developers produce more reliable applications in less time. Rails also provides built-in JavaScript libraries that make for the easy creation of Web 2.0 style applications.

How do You Benefit?

Users experience higher-quality web sites in less time with Rails. Rails supports agile development practices out-of-the-box. Agile is a development philosophy (or methodology) that focuses on small incremental delivery of the highest valued features first. It strongly encourages customer collaboration and the demonstration of working software.

Because Rails enables Agile development, this means projects can respond to change and adapt to new requirements more easily. In the end, there are no surprises because the customer is involved at every step.

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