# Rubyonrails.org vs rubyonrails.com

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyonrails-org-vs-rubyonrails-com/130257>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 26, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyonrails-org-vs-rubyonrails-com/130257 "2008-02-26T21:00:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![boothy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@boothy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/boothy)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyonrails-org-vs-rubyonrails-com/130257/1 "2008-02-26T21:00:02Z")

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what is the difference between these two sites?

they both recommend ver 1.8.6 when you click on the 2.0 download

seems funny they put out ver 2.0 but recommend 1.8.6 ??

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**Author:** ![boothy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@boothy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/boothy)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyonrails-org-vs-rubyonrails-com/130257/2 "2008-02-26T21:03:00Z")

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On Feb 26, 2008, at 11:51 AM, Roger B. wrote:

> what is the difference between these two sites?
> 
> they both recommend ver 1.8.6 when you click on the 2.0 download
> 
> seems funny they put out ver 2.0 but recommend 1.8.6 ??

Ruby version 1.86, Rails version 2.02. Ruby is the language; Rails is  
the application framework (a collection of Ruby code) that is written  
in Ruby.

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**Author:** ![boothy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@boothy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/boothy)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 9:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyonrails-org-vs-rubyonrails-com/130257/3 "2008-02-26T21:05:21Z")

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Um, what?

You do realize that there’s Rails and then there’s Ruby?

Rails 2.0.2  
Ruby 1.8.6

Jason