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Ruby on Rails

Open-source web application framework

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Also known as RoR · Rails

Developer: David Heinemeier Hansson
Founded: December 13, 2005
Released: July 25, 2004
Latest version: 8.1.3
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1.“Release (8.1.3)”github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v8.1.3Retrieved 2026-03-26
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1.weblog.rubyonrails.org/2017/5/12/Rails-5-0-3-and-5-1-1-have-been-released/
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1.weblog.rubyonrails.org/2017/6/26/Rails-5-1-2-has-been-released/
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Written in: Ruby
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1.Stated in Open Hub“The rails Open Source Project on Open Hub: Languages Page”openhub.net/p/rails/analyses/latest/languages_summaryRetrieved 2018-09-03
2.github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Data/github-ranking-2025-07-06.csv
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License: MIT License
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1.github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/README.mdRetrieved 2017-08-06
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Operating system: Unix-like operating system
Website: rubyonrails.org
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1.api.github.com/repos/rails/railsRetrieved 2017-01-09
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Ruby on Rails is a server-side web application framework written in Ruby under the MIT License. Rails is a model–view–controller (MVC) framework, providing default structures for a database, a web service, and web pages. It encourages and facilitates the use of web standards such as JSON or XML for data transfer and HTML, CSS and JavaScript for user interfacing. In addition to MVC, Rails emphasizes the use of other well-known software engineering patterns and paradigms, including convention over configuration (CoC), don't repeat yourself (DRY), and the active record pattern.

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Creator: David Heinemeier Hansson
Software quality assurance: continuous integration described at url: github.com · archive url: travis-ci.org
Participant in: Google Summer of Code 2018
Depends on software: Rack
Derivative work: diaspora*
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Has use: web framework
web development
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Copyright status: copyrighted
Founded by: David Heinemeier Hansson
Social media followers: 138,883(February 12, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 3116191
139,103(February 21, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 3116191
137,333(January 3, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 3116191
Has characteristic: don't repeat yourself
convention over configuration
Collection: Social Sciences and Humanities Open Marketplace
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