Rails

Definitions

1. Ruby on Rails — a full-stack web application framework that emphasizes convention over configuration, DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself), and developer happiness. Created by David Heinemeier Hansson in 2004. Pioneered patterns like MVC scaffolding, database migrations, and RESTful routing that every framework since has borrowed.

   In plain English: A web framework for Ruby that lets you build database-backed web applications very quickly by following its conventions — it makes a lot of decisions for you so you can focus on your app.

   Example: "Rails scaffold generated the CRUD app in 30 seconds. The next 6 months were spent on the edge cases."

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• Active Record
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