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-RubyOnRails
is a
framework for [Ruby] which apparently makes programming web apps
with databases really easy
.
+[Ruby on Rails | http://www.rubyonrails.org/]
is an [MVC]
framework for programming web applications in
[Ruby], made up of several components:
+
+* ~ActiveRecord, an [ORM] library that represents your Models in the [MVC] pattern
+* ~ActionPack,
which provides the View, and Controller parts of [MVC]. The views use ERb, or "Embedded Ruby"
+* ~ActiveWebService, which allows you to provide [SOAP] and [XMLRPC] services integrated into your controllers
+* ~ActiveSupport, which provides many small niceties, and overrides core [Ruby] objects to provide things like:
+ * <tt>5.days</tt> → <tt>432000</tt> (Along
with hours, fortnight(s), months, years etc. and kilo, mega, giga, tera-bytes etc.)
+ * <tt>"person".pluralise</tt> → <tt>"people"</tt> (Also <tt>singularise</tt> to do the opposite)
+ * And lots and lots of other language features, that arguably should be in [Ruby] anyway (such as <tt>Object.tap</tt>, <tt>Symbol-to-proc</tt>, returning "" do ... end)
+ ''''
+* ~ActionMailer, which sort-of also provides the View part of [MVC] but for sending (and also receiving) [Email]s
+
+The Rails core code provides the "glue" for all these components
.
