When we start checking what technologies stand behind endless apps we happen to use or just encounter every day, we will often hear Ruby on Rails. Who should know what it is and who can benefit from learning how the Rails framework functions?
Everything started with the idea of making web applications simpler and easier. It was David Heinermaier Hansson who put forward his concept and found other enthusiasts who, as the Rail Coreteam, created and expanded the Ruby on Rails Framework, a powerful development platform today.
This time the Mikstuira.IT event was slightly different as we wanted to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the birth of Ruby – an object-oriented scripting language created in 1993 by Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz for short).
“The Times They Are a-Changin” – the title of an album and a song by BoB Dylan is a good description of the current state of affairs in the Web and Mobile world. The web is more complicated than ever: a plethora of devices combined with multiple browsing and usage contexts for websites and web applications.
As the Internet matures, we abandon the classic approach whereby the user is presented with a handful of URLs which reload the page when clicked; the new approach aims to make the web application work seamlessly.
