Ruby on Rails is a lightweight opionated framework for rapidly developing web site solutions. The technology provides the developer with a number of powerful resources to abstract the database, view and client side solution into a rails environment.
It is capable of delivering complex solutions with limited time and budget available due to its fast and effective development approach. Each developer is able to spend her time effectively producing domain specific resources and functionality relying heavily on the framework to provide a well thought through ground plan.
The following resources are recommended for getting deeper into the technology: