•Web development
framework in Ruby
•With RDBMS (Mysql, Postgres, SQL
Server, SQLite etc)
•Strong prototyping (e.g.
Model-View-Controller (MVC) stucture)
•Comprehensive library
(covering
Ajax and Web service)
•Ruby-embedded
html
–à suitable to use our
Ruby library
•Has a private web
server (Webrick); also runs on Apache, lighttpd etc
–à One can personally
run a web server anywhere with arbitrary port