The document provides an introduction to Ruby and Ruby on Rails, including:
- Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, object-oriented programming language influenced by Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel and Lisp.
- Ruby on Rails is an open-source web application framework built with Ruby that follows the model-view-controller (MVC) pattern.
- Rails uses conventions over configuration, including scaffolding that automatically generates basic website structures.
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