29543Ruby on Rails Tutorials ? Beginning Relationshipshttp://www.railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=265The foundation of a great web application is proper relationships. The Rails framework takes most of the headache away from developing these relationships and almost entirely eliminates the need to write low-level queries to your database. If you've spent time writing those queries, Rails' ActiveRecord will make sense, but for those of you who are just getting started this can be confusing.Ruby on Rails > Tips and TutorialsOct 16, 2006Reedy
You may have already heard about Ruby on Rails, the new application framework that seems to be taking the Web development community, in particular J2EE and PHP programmers, by storm.
Ruby on Rails is an open source Web framework causing a lot of excitement among Web developers. By supporting agile development techniques and a philosophy of "convention over configuration," it has enabled many developers to radically reduce the time and pain involved in creating Web applications.
SUSIE is a simple application and shows a side of Ruby that other programming languages lack, the ability to be straight forward and small. Ruby does have muscle and lots of it. It is a pure object oriented programming language like Java. But you can still use it as a quick procedural language, embedded in HTML as shown by the SUSIE Photo Gallery.
Ruby is "an easy object oriented language". It may seem a little strange at first, but it is designed to be easily read and written. This User's Guide will get you started at invoking and using ruby, and give you insights into ruby's nature that you may not get from the reference manual.
Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto was looking for an object oriented scripting language. Python wasn't OO enough. Perl's "Swiss Army Chainsaw" approach was too messy. When he didn't find what he was looking for, Matz decided to write his own language. His goal was to create one good enough to replace Perl. Ruby was born in February of 1993 and first released to the public in 1995. Today, Ruby is more popular than Python in Japan. Ruby started hitting the shores of the United States around 2000.
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