Ruby On Rails Development – A Landmark In Ruby Programming

By Author: Racks Jackson
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Brainchild of David Heinemeier Hansson, better known as DHH in the Ruby community, Ruby on Rails truly lived up to its name. Despite of the language being extremely favorable for intensive web application development, there was a much desperate need for a reliable web development framework. It was the month of July in 2004 when DHH first released this framework as open source; however, he did not share ‘commit right’ to the project until later in 2005 with version 1.0 of this framework released in December the same year.

The turning point in the life of Ruby on Rails development came when Apple announced that it would ship this framework with its Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard. The availability of Ruby on Rails framework to Ruby programmers clubbed with the remarkable functionality of this framework instantly made it one of the most sought-after web development platforms for Ruby programmers. Ever since then, the popularity of Rails development has grown manifolds amongst ruby programmers.

Today, Ruby on Rails development continues to support programmers and developers in creating highly robust websites, web applications ...
... and web services. Headed by DHH, the Core team at RoR comprises of twelve top producers that have been given the keys to the source repository after months of their loyal services. As whole, the total number of active contributors on this framework has crossed the 2k mark, making Ruby on rails a highly potential web application development framework for Ruby programmers and developers looking to develop robust web applications.

The philosophies driving Ruby on rails development are ‘Convention over Configuration’ or CoC for short, and ‘Don’t Repeat Yourself’ or DRY for short. CoC means the developer using the framework needs to specify only the unconventional aspects of application while DRY means that the information is stored in a single, unambiguous place; here, Ruby on Rail development enables this information can be retrieved from the database based on the class name.

Owing to the immense efficacy of this framework, Ruby of rails is being used by a large number of developer websites offering online web development platform with their custom enhancements to this already remarkable web development platforms. In order to handle the stiff competition in this line of business, many of these developer websites offer free of cost trial offers to help programmers assess the edges offered by their version of this web development framework. If they find the web development framework suitable as per their needs, they can always sign up as registered members.

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