What is ORM as it applies to Rails and what does it mean?
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ORM is Object Relational Mapper. It means you don’t have to manually call the database yourself; the ORM handles it for you.
Ruby on Rails uses one called ActiveRecord, and it’s a really good one.
ORM allows you to do things such as:
Instead of manually writing a SELECT statement with JOINs, WHEREs, etc.