19.3. Ruby on Rails
One of the best known web frameworks in the Ruby realm is called Ruby on Rails (or simply Rails). This framework is the creation of David Heinemeier Hansson.
Rails makes heavy use of the dynamic features of Ruby. It also has its own design philosophy that “streamlines” web development, enabling rapid development of web-based applications.
Rails is well-known and well-documented. This book will only give it cursory coverage.
19.3.1. Principles and Techniques
Rails is built within the paradigm of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern. Every web application built with Rails is partitioned naturally into models (which model the problem domain), views (which present information to the user and allow interaction), and ...
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