Actually, the name is 'Ruby on Rails'. It's quite an interesting moniker for a programming language. OK, the language is Ruby. The 'on rails' part has to do with adding the programming language with database classes into a web server  and database environment. The example is an entire web-based recipe database in one line of code. That's impressive, and it's attracting a lot of attention. It was only a matter of time. Programmers are lazy folks. We don't like to write the same things over and over. So every time a new language pops up that includes more and more of the stuff that we've written over and over again, it's bound to take off.

But if you look under the hood, it's not quite one line of code to write a web based recipe database. In fact the tutorial takes three pages of system configuration and database mucking before you get to the one line of code. Some things never change.