•Full-Stack web framework – because Rails is an MVC web framework wherein models, views and controllers are completely integrated flawlessly, you automatically get all the benefits of an MVC design without all the configuration of each component to blend well with others.
•Productivity – Rails is all about helping you in being productive that’s why it’s very satisfying for users. In fact, there are many real-world application reaping off its benefits.
•Convention over Configuration – Rails uses easy and basic naming conventions and smart use of reflection to make your work a lot easier for you with almost no configuration. It makes sure that there are lesser repetitive and inaccurate chores in building a web application.
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What’s making Ruby on Rails stand out in the crowd when there are quite a number of application frameworks? Here’s why:
•Real-World Usage – Rails comes from real need, it does not anticipate what might be necessary or needed that is why it is considered to be extracted from real-world web applications making it easier to use, it stays out of your way so it’s convenient and it has cohesive framework with significant and various functionality.
•Object-oriented Language – everything is written in the Ruby programming language from business logic to configuration files. It has just one language because it is a full object-oriented language with clean syntax meaning you don’t have to deal with multiple languages and dialects while you are bulding application.
More on text editors that are used with RoR and we not discuss VIM or Vi Improved. Vim like Emacs is quite efficient and easy to use with RoR provided it is set-up properly. The nice about Vim is that it has the nifty way of highlighting syntax in ruby making it easy to trace and debug. It features advanced features such as having a selective command and insert mode with the first being the default mode upon startup. It is not a word processor so fonts and other word processor features are not to be expected.
TextPad
One of the quickest and easiest to use as a text editor for making RoR programs with straightforward interface and features mostly adept to windows users. Though considered a text editor it is capable of syntax highlighting, search , spell check and macro recording which makes it a choice of many developers.
ArachnoRuby
Is deployable on both windows based and Unix based systems and is considered to be the native editor of RoR. It was not too user friendly so it quickly lost favor of many developers who turned to the other specified editors for programming code.
Now that all has been set-up and is working, you should be able to create empty apps which is merely defining the application using rails which automatically creates all the necessary directories that are needed. Open a command prompt window and go to the directory where it was installed and proceed into the rails_apps directory. Type in ‘rails filename’ and rails creates all the necessary directories you would be needing for the development process. Don�t get freaked out when you see the multitude of directories for they will be filled out by “RAILS” and not by you manually. The next post will discuss some of the nuances of those dizzying directories to take some of the fog over them out.