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Ruby on Rails Getting Started/Install on Windows
Ruby on Rails, or often seen as RoR or just Rails, is an web application framework written in the programming language Ruby. Rails was created to be a project management tool for "37signals". Quickly, it became one of the most popular frameworks on the web and its ideas and philosophies has inspired many frameworks in different languages.
Features
Rails supports agile software development
Rails has a short and very intuitive language
Single blocks of code are intended to be short and clear
Rails is very flexible
Rails comes with a testing framework
The framework follows the principles of DRY
Rails has some conventions: these allow quick development and consistent code
Rails uses the MVC Model-View-Controller-Architecture
Rails comes with an integrated server for local testing
Applications with Rails are RESTful