1.7. Summary

This first chapter provided a general introduction and overview of Ruby on Rails, highlighting part of its story, philosophy, and relevance to the current Web development world. Step-by-step instructions to set up a complete development environment as well as a quick glance at common editors completed the chapter.

Chapter 2 debunks common misconceptions, explores the concepts behind MVC, takes a closer look at the philosophical principles embraced by Rails, and finally, provides a macroscopic analysis of the differences between this and the ASP.NET world.