What is Ruby?

Ruby is an object-oriented software language, developed by Yukihiro Matsumoto, aka "Matz". It balances beautiful, easy-to-read syntax with powerful features borrowed from Lisp, Smalltalk, and Perl.

What is Rails?

Rails is an Open Source web-application framework, designed with agile software development in mind. It favors convention over configuration, which allows developers to rapidly get a prototype up and running. This frees up more time to focus on quality and features.

Rails gives us the power to design complex, secure, industrial-strength web apps, along with the flexibility to easily make future modifications.