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Notes on Ruby From Sebesta's "Programming The World Wide Web"

Ø    Designed in Japan by Yukihiro Matsumoto
Ø    Released in 1996
Ø    Designed to replace Perl and Python
Ø    Rails, a web application development
Ø        framework , was written in and uses Ruby
Ø    Ruby is general purpose but probably the  
Ø        most common use of Ruby is Rails
Ø    Rails was developed by David Heinemeier
Ø        and released in 2004
Ø    Basecamp (project management) is written
Ø        in RoR