Rails

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Rails
Software Details:
Version: 4.2.0
Upload Date: 17 Feb 15
Developer: Rails Team
Distribution Type: Freeware
Downloads: 6

Rating: 2.5/5 (Total Votes: 2)

Rails (also known as Ruby on Rails) is an open source, free and full-stack web framework that can be used by programmers to develop database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern.

Features at a glance

The application supports a wide range of web servers and databases, including Apache,lighttpd, MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2, Firebird, and SQL Server. It works well on any UNIX-like operating system.

Rails is heavily used on both non-profit and enterprise organizations, for developing any type of web application, such as software for collaboration, e-commerce, community, content management, statistics, etc.

Taking a look under the hood of the Rails project, we can notice that it has been written entierly in the Ruby programming language.

Getting started with Rails

In order to install Rails on your GNU/Linux operating system, you will need to first install Ruby. After that, you can easily install Rails and all of its runtime dependencies through RubyGems, using the ‘gem install rails’ command in a terminal emulator application.

Alternatively, you can install Rails from the main software repositories of several popular distributions of GNU/Linux, including Arch Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE or Linux Mint. It can be installed on computers supporting either of the 32-bit or 64-bit hardware platforms.

After installation, you can interact with the Rails framework via a console environment. At first, you will have to create the app skeleton by running the ‘rails new path/to/your/new/application’ command, navigate to the location of the newly created app skeleton (e.g. cd path/to/your/new/application) and start the server with the ‘rails server’ command.

At this moment, you are successfully running Ruby on Rails inside your Linux box. Open a web browser, access the http://localhost:3000 location and follow the instructions displayed on the screen.

What is new in this release:

  • Action Pack:
  • Downgrade sprockets to ~> 2.0.3. Using 2.1.0 caused regressions.
  • Fix using translate helper with a html translation which uses the :count option for pluralization.
  • Active Record:
  • Perf fix: If we're deleting all records in an association, don't add a IN(..) clause to the query. GH 3672
  • Fix bug with referencing other mysql databases in settablename. GH 3690
  • Fix performance bug with mysql databases on a server with lots of other databses. GH 3678
  • Railties:
  • New apps should be generated with a sass-rails dependency of 3.1.5, not 3.1.5.rc.2

What is new in version 3.0 Beta:

  • Brand new router with an emphasis on RESTful declarations
  • New Action Mailer API modelled after Action Controller (now without the agonizing pain of sending multipart messages!)
  • New Active Record chainable query language built on top of relational algebra
  • Unobtrusive JavaScript helpers with drivers for Prototype, jQuery, and more coming (end of inline JS)
  • Explicit dependency management with Bundler

What is new in version 2.3.5:

  • Rails 2.3.5 was released over the weekend which provides several bug-fixes and one security fix. It should be fully compatible with all prior 2.3.x releases and can be easily upgraded to with "gem update rails". The most interesting bits can be summarized in three points.
  • Improved compatibility with Ruby 1.9:
  • There were a few small bugs preventing full compatibility with Ruby 1.9. However, we wouldn't be surprised you were already running Rails 2.3.X successfully before these bugs were fixed (they were small).
  • RailsXss plugin availability:
  • As you may have heard, in Rails 3 we are now automatically escaping all string content in erb (where as before you needed to use "h()" to escape). If you want to have this functionality today you can install Koz's RailsXss plugin in Rails 2.3.5.
  • Fixes for the Nokogiri backend for XmlMini:
  • With Rails 2.3 we were given the ability to switch out the default XML parser from REXML to other faster parsers like Nokogiri. There were a few issues with using Nokogiri which are now resolved, so if your application is parsing lots of xml you may want to switch to this faster XML parser.

Requirements:

  • Ruby

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