From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <753298f4837c64e1b7ebb53b3fcbb4af@quanstro.net> <2680FD1A-BED2-44DF-B49C-35DDDA833DD0@mac.com> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:50:57 -0400 Message-ID: <9ab217670904161050y4e51be4ey7117a27985f10d93@mail.gmail.com> From: "Devon H. O'Dell" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Rails? (was Re: web server) Topicbox-Message-UUID: dd5ad542-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 2009/4/16 hiro <23hiro@googlemail.com>: > What is the advantage of rails anyway? > I had a quick glance, but still don't really understand it's function. MVC development model. Allows you to abstract the data from the code from the design, but easily access needed parts from other needed parts. One of the big things here is the ORM, which basically maps information in a database to native language objects. --dho