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drjones · 05-01-2007, 12:16 PM

Not at all. Rails is a collection of Ruby frameworks, put together in a nice coherent peice. Look at the php frameworks in the poll and you can get a better idea of what RoR is.

RoR has a template engine built in yes, but its much more than that.

It has other components as well, such as ActiveRecord ORM (Object Relational Mapper). You dont have to write a bit of SQL to write a database driven app, or even to design the schema. Because of its ability to introspect its objects, it can automatically generate web forms from your database tables. It can automatically validate data as its entered and all kinds of other cool stuff like that.

Migrations are another great feature. You define your db schema in ruby code. As you make changes to your schema, it saves the iterations, so with one command you can rollback to previous versions, or even use your app on top of another DB. It can take care of inserting or removing initial data into your app.

It also has an amazing testing suite built in, that makes it dead simple to run tests on your application.

05-01-2007, 12:16 PM
drjones Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Charlotte, NC Posts: 908	Not at all. Rails is a collection of Ruby frameworks, put together in a nice coherent peice. Look at the php frameworks in the poll and you can get a better idea of what RoR is. RoR has a template engine built in yes, but its much more than that. It has other components as well, such as ActiveRecord ORM (Object Relational Mapper). You dont have to write a bit of SQL to write a database driven app, or even to design the schema. Because of its ability to introspect its objects, it can automatically generate web forms from your database tables. It can automatically validate data as its entered and all kinds of other cool stuff like that. Migrations are another great feature. You define your db schema in ruby code. As you make changes to your schema, it saves the iterations, so with one command you can rollback to previous versions, or even use your app on top of another DB. It can take care of inserting or removing initial data into your app. It also has an amazing testing suite built in, that makes it dead simple to run tests on your application. __________________ ICQ: 284903372 Last edited by drjones; 05-01-2007 at 12:17 PM..