Top tips for Ruby on Rails beginners

You've probably heard the name – Ruby on Rails. But what is it, why is it so poplar and how do you start learning about it? Ruby, like JavaScript, is a general purpose programming language that's best known for is use in web programming. It was created around twenty years ago by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto.

Along the way, you've probably heard the term Rails too – Ruby on Rails. Rails, in this context, is an extension – or a software library – that's designed to expand the Ruby Programming language. The Rails framework is for building websites.

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