Programming languages: Ruby on Rails

Luiggi Trejo
3 min readDec 19, 2022
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Ruby on Rails, often abbreviated as RoR or just Rails, is an open-source web application framework written in the Ruby programming language. It is designed to make programming web applications easier by making assumptions about what developers need and providing them with a structure to build their applications.

One of the key principles of Rails is convention over configuration, which means that it follows certain conventions for naming and organizing code, and uses sensible defaults for things like the database and web server. This means that developers can build applications quickly without having to spend a lot of time configuring everything from scratch.

Rails uses the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture, which separates the application into three distinct parts: the model, which represents the data; the view, which represents the user interface; and the controller, which handles the interaction between the model and the view. This separation of concerns makes it easier to develop and maintain complex applications.

Rails has a large and active community, which has contributed many open-source libraries (called “gems”) that can be easily integrated into Rails applications. This means that developers can leverage these libraries to add functionality to their applications quickly and easily.

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