Ruby on Rails revolutionized web development by demonstrating how convention over configuration and an integrated full-stack framework could dramatically accelerate application building. Rails provides an opinionated structure, powerful abstractions for common web development tasks, and a vibrant ecosystem of gems that solve myriad problems. Our Ruby on Rails articles cover techniques for building effective applications with this mature, productive framework. Learn about Rails conventions and the MVC pattern, Active Record for elegant database interactions, Rails routing and controllers, and Action View templating.

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