The yester years of Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails (also known as RoR), a brilliant product of the Rails core team, is an open source (free to use & modiy) web application development tool (or framework). It gives the power, even to an amateur, to develop professional grade web applications for his website. Today, many firms provide unlimited hosting plans on the Ruby on rails platform. One is advised to compare the various available unlimited hosting plans carefully to choose the best one; most of them promise unlimited email addresses & sub domains.
The concept of Ruby on Rails was developed in 2004 by David Hannson, a programmer (now a partner) at the firm – 37 signals. He was developing the project management tool “Basecamp”.
Ruby on Rails was released as an open source development tool in the year 2005. In th year 2006, Apple Inc declared that RoR will be distributed along with the Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard), an year later, the name ‘RAILS’, the logo and the tool itself was trademarked.
The version 2.3 was released in the year 2009 whereas the latest version is 3.07 which was release in April 2011. The advanced features of RoR like templates & engines aid in developing various types of applications for purposes like video sharing, e-commerce, online libraries, social networking and so on. The advantage in using RoR is that, though the tool itself is based on the Java interface, one does not need to be a master of Java script. One can actually develop the application faster through Ruby on rails than building it using core Java.