Valentina solutions are available for the Ruby language and Ruby on Rails framework. Please read more about specific operating system support.

• Valentina Ruby ADK (local Ruby) and server implementations (Valentina Office Server, Valentina Embedded Server) is available on the Microsoft Windows platform.
• Valentina Ruby ADK (local Ruby) and server implementations (Valentina Office Server, Valentina Embedded Server) on the Apple Mac OS X platform are available.
• Valentina Ruby ADK (local Ruby) and server implementations (Valentina Office Server, Valentina Embedded Server) on the Linux platform is currently in beta with estimated release in Q4 2007.

See how to install Valentina for Ruby/Ruby on Rails.

What is Ruby?

Ruby is a powerful object-oriented programming language, created by Yukihiro Matsumoto. Everything in Ruby is an object, and Ruby has blocks, iterators, and meta-classes. Ruby is licensed under the Ruby License.

Ruby features:

* Simple syntax,
* Basic OO features (classes, methods, objects, and so on),
* Special OO features (Mix-ins, singleton methods, renaming, …),
* Operator overloading,
* Exception handling,
* Iterators and closures,
* Garbage collection,
* Dynamic loading (depending on the architecture)
* High transportability

What is Ruby on Rails?

Ruby on Rails is licensed under the MIT License. According to the official Ruby on Rails website, Ruby on Rails is described as:

Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern. From the Ajax in the view, to the request and response in the controller, to the domain model wrapping the database, Rails gives you a pure-Ruby development environment. To go live, all you need to add is a database and a web server.

Valentina for Ruby on Rails currently supports ActiveRecord 1.5, with support for ActiveRecord 2.0 under development.