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Shopify Application Development

You're reading from   Shopify Application Development Build highly effective Shopify apps using the powerful Ruby on Rails framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783281053
Length 106 pages
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Chapter 2. Setting Up

The web application that we'll be building throughout the course of the book will be written in Ruby using the open source Rails framework. To quote http://rubyonrails.org:

"Ruby on Rails® is an open-source web framework that's optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration."

I couldn't agree more. I find Rails fun to use and the development process to be very intuitive. The community is very active and there are tons of free resources online. It's also worth mentioning that Shopify is written in Rails and many popular Ruby libraries such as Active Merchant and Liquid are extractions of the Shopify source code.

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Although the simplicity of Rails makes it an ideal tool for building our application, we could have just as easily used any web framework, such as ASP.NET, PHP, or Django and achieved a similar result. Remember, the end goal is to output HTML/CSS and JavaScript to the...

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