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Ruby on Rails is a web application framework. As its name says, it is built in Ruby, and follows the model view controller (MVC) pattern.
Rails, as it is commonly referred to, includes "scaffolding" tools, which will generate basic versions of the commonly required code to setup an application, but is generally less heavy on included components than the comparable Django. There is, however, an extensive ecosystem of tools built for Rails.
You've probably already used many of the applications that were built with Ruby on Rails: Basecamp, GitHub, Shopify, Airbnb, Twitch, SoundCloud, Hulu, Zendesk, Square, Highrise. Those are just some of the big names, but there are literally hundreds of thousands of applications built with the framework since its release in 2004.
Ruby on Rails, or simply Rails, is a server-side web application framework written in Ruby under the MIT License. Rails is a model–view–controller (MVC) framework, providing default structures for a database, a web service, and web pages. It encourages and facilitates the use of web standards such as JSON or XML for data transfer, and HTML, CSS and JavaScript for display and user interfacing. In addition to MVC, Rails emphasizes the use of other well-known software engineering patterns and paradigms, including convention over configuration (CoC), don't repeat yourself (DRY), and the active record pattern.