# Re: How do we start with ruby and rails?

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**Created:** [January 20, 2006, 9:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-how-do-we-start-with-ruby-and-rails/63517 "2006-01-20T21:19:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gennady\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@Gennady\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Gennady_B)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 9:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-how-do-we-start-with-ruby-and-rails/63517/1 "2006-01-20T21:19:10Z")

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> **[Ruby on Rails](https://rubyonrails.org)**
>
> A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

Book “Agile Web D. with Rails” is what you would find very  
useful. It concentrates on Rails, of course, but gives enough Ruby to be  
able to get around.

Gennady.