Rails can help you achieve a new level of productivity by combining the right elements in the right amounts. A number of the most important ingredients that make up Rails:

• Ruby – use the Ruby programming language and it’s unique design makes it easy to create domain-specific languages and to do metaprogramming. Rails takes full advantage of this.

• Full-stack MVC framework – a framework where Rails provides all the layers and they work together without an effort.

• Convention over configuration – Rails application uses few simple programming conventions that let it figure out everything by way of reflection and discovery.