David Heinemeier Hansson created ruby on Rails or often-called Rails. Rails are a software code that extends the Ruby programming language. Rails is basically a framework for building webpages. Rails make it easier for collaboration and maintenance, this is also known as Rails API. Rails combine the Ruby programming language with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create a web application that runs on a web server. Rails is a model-view-controller (MVC) framework, that provides default structures for a database and webpages. Ruby on Rails contains tools that make common development tasks easier.

Why should you learn Rails? Ruby is a good language for beginners to learn because it is so flexible and forgiving. So learning Rails from Ruby will be very useful and good for beginners as well. Rails give you an amazing way to design web services, webpages, and databases, so learning it will help you write better web applications and it will be easier to maintain. A lot of big companies also build their website off Rails as well, like Hulu, Airbnb, and Basecamp.