Welcome to Ruby on Rails World

Ruby and Ruby on Rails—the Next Level in Dynamic Web Application Development

Ruby is a scripting language. I think you might be familiar with C, C++, Java, or some other programming language. But what makes Ruby different from so many languages? The answer is: Ruby is a dynamically typed, interpreted, reflective, object-oriented programming language. In 1995, Yukihiro Matsumoto released the first version of Ruby and current version is 1.8.6.It is fastest growing language.The next version of Ruby will be1.9.1, and it is releasing very soon in the month of January 2009

Ruby on Rails is a frameworkwhich is build upon Ruby and it is lightweight and nimble.

Rails is built on two principles:

Convention Over Configuration (COC)
Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY)

Ruby

Introduction of Ruby
Why Ruby?
Classes,Objects, and Variables
Containers, Blocks, and Iterators
Standard Types
Methods
Expressions
Exceptions,Catch, and Throw
Modules
Basics Input and Output
Threads and Processes

Ruby on Rails Framework

Introduction of Rails Framework
The Architecture of Rails Applications
Installing Rails