1 Features of Ruby on Rails RoR

Ruby – the programming language

Ruby is an object oriented language that is interpreted. It has syntax similar to Perl and semantics similar to Smalltalk. Ruby itself was developed in C. Rails web application framework is developed on Ruby.

Salient features of Ruby language are:

• Pure OOP
• Support for Reflection – can query Ruby objects about themselves
• Duck Typing – Ruby “ducks” the issue of typing, letting the type of a variable be determined by its value.