Active resource (ares) connects business objects and representational state transfer (rest) web services. it implements object-relational mapping for rest webservices to provide transparent proxying capabilities between a client (activeresource) and a restful service (which is provided by simply restffull routing in actioncontroller::resources)

this is empty dependency package which depends on the default debian version of rails framework. if you need to depend on a specific version of rails, you need to depend on -version package.