What is Ruby on Rails?

" Ruby on Rails is a modern high-level web development framework. The creators claim that Ruby on Rails will significantly increase the productivity of web developers compared to previous popular technologies such as PHP. Version 1.0 was released last year and since then Ruby on Rails is gaining momentum. "
Alex Lebedev

Under the link is a very nice article with a debriefing ...
Source: alexlebedev.com/blog/we-are-on-rails