What is Ruby on Rails?
A framework for building web applications. This is quoted from their home page:
Rails has been conceived, coded, and evangelized by David Heinemeier Hansson of 37signals with the kind help of a lot of contributors.
How did it start?
Basecamp, a project-management tool by 37signals, was the original Rails application from which the framework was extracted.
Dave Thomas:
I think Rails may well be the framework to break Ruby into the mainstream
Real-life apps
Basecamp, Backpack, 43 Things, Ta-da List, Hieraki, S5 Presents, Snowdevil
To get Ruby on Rails running in Mac OS X
The documentation for Mac OS X installation packages sends you here, for Jaguar and Panther, but it redirects to the install instructions on the Rails site for Tiger. From here, there is a tutorial on how to get up and running.
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posted Friday August 12, 2005