Rails?

[Webnet]

Perhaps I'm behind, what is rails? I keep seeing in in topics but don't know what it is.

[Luke Redpath]

Its a web application framework written in Ruby.

www.rubyonrails.com

[mas22]

Rails is a Web Application framework which is written using the Ruby language.

It was created during the development of a project called Basecamp by a team including and lead by David Heinemeier Hansson of 37signals.

So,
Language: Ruby
Web App stack, including MVC, persistence, etc, all written in Ruby: Rails

Rails is intended primarily for Web development using Ruby. It also comes with its own small scale webserver called Webrick (sp?)

Check out this easy read:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2.../20/rails.html

Hope that helps,
Mark