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Ruby on Rails (ROR) is an application framework for the Ruby programming language for creating websites. Uses the Model-View-Controller (MVS) platform for programming. It is less popular than PHP and other web programming languages like Perl, ASP or other, but many popular web sites use Ruby: twitter, whitepages.com, github and others. Rails needs webserver (Apache httpd) and module. Database management systems like MySQL is also supported by Ruby On Rails.

Hostmonster Ruby On Rails

Hostmonster supports ROR on their servers, but you need to configure your account before you can execute Rails application on your hostmonster account. First you need to enable SSH access on your account, setup folders and configure .htaccess to give requests to the ROR parser. It is not hard to setup if you are Rails developer, but for the average user it might be difficult if the user lacks linux knowledge. The complete step-by-step guide can be found here:

http://helpdesk.hostmonster.com/index.php/kb/article/207.