It provides all the tools needed to develop web-apps that can run on CGI, FastCGI and on the mod_ruby.

Rails gives the developer a pure-Ruby development environment.

Ruby on Rails was developed by David Heinemeier Hansson from his work on Basecamp.

To install, use RubyGems.

Here are some key features of "Ruby on Rails":

· Templates enable the developer to generate a skeleton application with custom gems and configurations.
· Engines let one reuse application pieces complete with routes, view paths and models.
· The Rack web server interface and Metal allow one to write optimized pieces of code that route around ActionController.

Requirements:

· Ruby 1.8.7 / 1.9.2 or higher
· RubyGems

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Some fixes and doc improvements.