Ruby on Rail Development

Ruby on rail development or simply Rails is a web application framework written in Ruby. It is a model view controller (MVC) framework, providing default structures for a database, a web service and web pages. JSON or XML are web structures for data purpose and for display and user interfacing HTML, CSS and Java script are being used. It also emphasizes the use of other well known software engineering pattern and paradigm. It also includes convention over configuration (CoC), don’t repeat yourself (DRY) and the active record pattern.

It was derived by David heinemeier Hansson from his project tool Base camp at the web application company also called Base camp. The various versions of it are 1.0, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.2.5, 5.0 etc.  It uses the model view controller (MVC) pattern to organize application programming. It is separated into various packages like Active record (an object relational mapping system for database access), Active Resource (provides web services), Action pack, Active Support and Action mailer.   It is typically deployed with a database server such as My SQL or Postgre SQL and a web server such as Apache running the Phusion Passenger module. Some of the largest sites running by it include Airnb, GitHub, Scribd, Shopify, Hulu and Base camp. As of January 2016, it is estimated that more than 1.2 million web sites are running it. A session cookie persistence security flaw was reported in it. In a default configuration, the entire session hash is stored within a session cookie known as Cookie Store, allowing any authenticated session possessing the session cookie to log in as the target user at any time in the future. Administrators are advised to configure cookies to stored on the server using mechanism such as Active Record Store.  Its core team as of June 5, 2015 cosist of David Heinemeier Hansson, Jeremy Daer, Santiago Pastorino, Aaron Patterson, Xavier Noria, Rafael Franca, Andrew White, Guilermo  Iquaran, Carlos Anonio, Yves Senn, Godfrey Chan and Matthew Draper. Among them Aaron Patterson is most widely known due to its regular appearances at the Rail conference and other similar conferences. He has significant contributions to the performance and security of the Rails framework.