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Ruby on Rails - Deserves the Hype?

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  1. Learn How Ruby on Rails Can Speed Up Development
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Learn How Ruby on Rails Can Speed Up Development

With the multitude of programming languages out there such as Fortran, Java, C++ and C#, you may wonder why Ruby on Rails has suddenly become such a hot topic in the development world. Created in the late 1990's by an individual in Japan, the Ruby programming language had a cult following but never reached top-tier status.

In 2004, a company called 37 Signals released a Web programming framework called Rails, which was originally developed for their own in-house projects. Rails was written using the Ruby programming language. It is the combination of Ruby and Rails together that has generated notable excitement in the development community, and the emerging language and application framework is proving to be a game-changer to the world of Web application development.

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  1. 10 Sep 2008 at 14:06

     Hi

    Nice article, What is the scope of the ROR in web design field. can ROR replace the PHP? I think you need to read this article.

    thanks

  2. 01 Jan 1999 at 00:00

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