Ruby on Rails: what the <hack> is this and why is it important for your product?

Making it as simple as it can get, Ruby and Rails is a web development framework providing Rails developers a time saving method for writing code. Yet in a world of many other web frameworks, Rails is just one of them. These frameworks were built to give developers ready made solutions to their repetitive tasks like building menus, tables or forms on a website. Because of this, web developers can now refer to a framework and find code for current functions that they can plug into their websites for web apps they are building. In most cases web frameworks are specific to a certain programming language. The Rails Framework on the other hand is simply a web framework built on top of the Ruby programming language.