Rapid Web Application Development: A Ruby on Rails Tutorial

Author

Viswanathan, Viswa

Author_Institution

Seton Hall University

Volume

25

Issue

6

fYear

2008

Firstpage

98

Lastpage

106

Abstract

Ruby on Rails (Rails) is a powerful Web application framework based on the dynamic object-oriented (OO) language Ruby. Full support for Web 2.0 and Web services, and extremely rapid development capability, enable it to power high-traffic Web sites such as yellowpages.com and reliablehealth.com. Far from being yet another quick-and-dirty scripting environment, Rails incorporates important "programming in the large" features suited for scalability. This hands-on tutorial introduces Rails through a database-driven Web application that also showcases Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) and Web services.

Keywords

Web services; Web sites; XML; object-oriented languages; object-oriented programming; Ajax; Asynchronous JavaScript-and-XML; Ruby dynamic object-oriented programming language; Ruby-on-Rails; Web 2.0; Web service; Web site; database-driven Web application; rapid Web application development; relational database; Java; Object oriented modeling; Rails; Reactive power; Scalability; Spatial databases; Tutorial; Web server; Web services; XML; Ajax; Ruby; Ruby on Rails; Web applications; Web services; programming environments; software engineering;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7459

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MS.2008.156

Filename

4670722