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[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)
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* ~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.

One page links to RubyOnRails:

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Last edited on Monday, September 10, 2007 4:58:19 pm by AristotlePagaltzis

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