Ruby on Rails for Beginners | Webmonkey | Wired.com

Ruby on Rails for Beginners | Webmonkey

Rails is much more than just a tube of glue with which to stick Ruby on the web. And of course, it’s possible to program web apps in Ruby without getting Rails involved — just tell Apache to invoke your Ruby scripts via CGI. Rails is a programming toolbox, with a wealth of pre-written code that implements the structure and many of the common functions of a database-driven site. That eliminates much of the preliminary busywork necessary to create such a site, but also enforces a tight, sane structure on the code, which has the effect of making development very facile. It’s like working in a well-organized company:it takes a little time to figure out who sits where and what they do, but once you understand the structure, you can use it to your advantage without having to make lots of micro-managerial decisions all the time.

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