It's more like context... Rails has a lot of context which allows developers to rapidly specify what they want to happen in the context of web apps. Rails is

It's more like context... Rails has a lot of context which allows developers to rapidly specify what they want to happen in the context of web apps. Rails is like asking someone to get milk, rails maps a route, obeys the laws of the road while getting there, pays for it, and returns with milk. In other frameworks you explicitly have to tell it every little detail of how to get milk, usually culminating in the IMammalianFactoryMilkFactory pattern.