Ruby on Rails (RoR)is just one of many many features offered with
DreamHost web hosting package. Ruby on Rails is often shortened to just Rails or RoR, but is the same product registered by all 3 names. Although RoR is an open source web application, DreamHost makes applying it to your website simple by including it in your web hosting package.
So, what can RoR do for you and your website? In March, 2009, RoR released version 2.3 which offers some major new developmens including templates, engines, Rack and nested model forms.
- Templates allow you to generate a skeleton application with custom configurations.
- Engines let you reuse application pieces complete with routes, view paths and models.
- The Rack web server interface allows you to write optimized pieces of code that route around ActionController.
Since it's release RoR is continually keeping up with technology and trying to find way to improve their product. The newest release 2.3.8 was just in May 2010. For those of you who are not familiar with programming these added features help you to easily
build your site, and make it more customizable to your site. Ruby on Rails gives you all the basic "out of the box" frameworks to provide you with your basic development environment.
