This is the first of a series of posts on developing with Ruby on Rails. In this post I introduce you Ruby on Rails and help you get started by installing the framework on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala.

Ruby on Rails, often called Rails or RoR, is an open source web application framework which favors convention over configuration. It is a framework developed for the Ruby programming language. RoR is designed to be used with an Agile development methodology that enables rapid web development. Ruby on Rails uses the Model–View–Controller (MVC) architectural pattern. This pattern used in software engineering is used to isolate the application logic from the inputs and presentation (GUI), permitting independent development, testing and maintenance of each of the components.
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Although the TOP500 list of supercomputers show that we have a theoretical computing capability of 2.3 petaflops/sec and using nearly about quarter million cores, these systems are primitive in nature as they consume large amounts of power, money and space. The annual supercomputing conference SC09 at Portland Ore, is meeting up discuss the next performance goal: To build an Exascale Supercomputing system.
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