From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2013-01-11T00:26:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie: Web app development

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Carlos A. <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> I am completely new to this whole affair (programming in general) and
> was wondering whether Ruby (or Rails) is good to develop a  web
> application which interfaces with APIs?
> Sorry if its a silly question but I am completely new to this!

Ruby is a programming language: you can program anything with it.
Rails is a web framework written in Ruby: you develop web applications
on top of it, in Ruby

There are also other web frameworks that are very nice, like Sinatra,
which could be great to start learning to program web applications.

Jesus.