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Comment author: peter_hurford 20 April 2014 06:15:59AM 1 point [-]

I'll try and work my way through your recommendations and let you know how it goes.

Thanks for the compliments. I look forward to it!

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I barely understand the rest

Hopefully it will make sense once you get there. Let me know if it doesn't!

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I have now worked out that "rails" is short for "ruby on rails" and is a "web application framework" not a programming language.

Well, Ruby is the programming language and Rails is the framework.