I can see how that can be confusing. Rails is a development stack. It gives you exactly what's needed to get an app up and running quickly. It also provides the

I can see how that can be confusing. Rails is a development stack. It gives you exactly what's needed to get an app up and running quickly. It also provides the means to keep the app maintainable. Oak tries to provide that same experience to .Net devs. These components can be used independently, but the whole is definitely greater than the sum of its parts.