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What is a LAMP stack?
Last updated: March 28, 2011
A LAMP stack is a server configured with Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.
These are all open source allowing the server admin to get a fully featured web server up and running with very little expense.
What is Ruby on Rails?
Last updated: March 28, 2011
Ruby on Rails is an open source web application framework based on the Ruby programming language. It is a rapid development framework leveraging the agile development methodology.
Ruby on Rails or ROR came out of the work on the Basecamp project by David Heinemeier Hansson for 37Signals.
Ruby on Rails provides many tools to the developer to speed up and ease the traditional tasks of programming such as scafolding and a built in ruby based web browser called WEBrick. Ruby on Rails relies on a web server such as WEBrick or Mongrel to run and many such as Apache, Lighttpd and Abyss also support it as a module like Passenger or via CGI, FastCGI or mod_ruby.
Ruby On Rails extensively uses the JavaScript libraries Prototype and Script.aculo.us for Ajax and now also uses RESTful web services.
