Ø Designed in Japan by
Yukihiro Matsumoto
Ø Released in 1996
Ø Designed to replace Perl
and Python
Ø Rails, a web application
development
Ø framework , was written
in and uses Ruby
Ø Ruby is general purpose but
probably the
Ø most common use of Ruby
is Rails
Ø Rails was developed by
David Heinemeier
Ø and released in
2004
Ø Basecamp (project
management) is written
Ø in RoR