<UL> <LI>Ruby, a simple object-oriented programming language, and Rails, a Ruby add-on that facilitates Web page-database interaction, are today's hot new open source development platforms</LI> <LI>The Rails Web site, 37signals.com, has 250,000 customers and 1 million page views a day</LI> <LI>Using a conversational tone and lots of easy-to-follow examples, popular F... (展开全部) <UL> <LI>Ruby, a simple object-oriented programming language, and Rails, a Ruby add-on that facilitates Web page-database interaction, are today's hot new open source development platforms</LI> <LI>The Rails Web site, 37signals.com, has 250,000 customers and 1 million page views a day</LI> <LI>Using a conversational tone and lots of easy-to-follow examples, popular For Dummies author Barry Burd gently introduces programming novices to Web-database processing and development with Ruby on Rails (RoR)</LI> <LI>The book ranges from Ruby and RoR basics, installation, and writing simple Ruby programs to using RoR with Ajax and creating a blog, a shopping cart, and other real-world projects</LI></UL>