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Ruby on Rails: A Model-View-Controller framework for web applications written in Ruby. Ruby on Rails provides database abstractions, web server interactions and HTML or XML generation capabilities in one complete software package. RoR was designed for "agile" development, the techniques of which include test-driven development, simplicity and rapid application development.

Also Known As: Rails, RoR
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