Ruby on Rails

web application development

Ruby

programming language

• optimized for programmer's happiness

• conceptually beautiful, honed to perfection like a Japanese katana

• object-oriented

• functional elements

• powerful metaprogramming

web app development framework

• rapid web app development

• all-in-one

• convention over configuration

• DRY (don't repeat yourself)

• MVC

Other aspects

• code style

• code quality

• TDD

• web development in general

Questions?