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What is Ruby on Rails?

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Learning to build a modern web application is daunting. Ruby on Rails makes it much easier and more fun.


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Vinicius G.
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Vinicius G.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"One of the Most Productivity-focused Web Frameworks"
Ruby on Rails is really easy to start using, has a thriving community and can be written like English.
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Konstantin F.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Amazing Framework to build products and services"
Innovative Framework for building real life applications without dependency hells and a streamlined well though development for highly maintanable ...
Swapnil T.
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Swapnil T.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Good development product"
Efficient way to write code. Supports rapid development. Offers useful gems for web development.

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What do you like best about Ruby on Rails?

Convention over configuration. A rails developer will be able to work on any rails project without a steep learning curve. Rails "magic" lets us focus more on delivering new features instead that the minutae. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ruby on Rails?

Performance is not comparable to other languages/frameworks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ruby on Rails solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easy configuration and blazing quick setup for a startup project. Lets us focus on implementing features rather than the structure of the application and inner workings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Ruby on Rails?

The Ruby on Jets is a new framework which is similar to Ruby on Rails. The jets framework gives us the extensive power to create serverless applications and it's deployment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ruby on Rails?

Since the framework was introduced lately, the implementation examples and lack of proper documentation was a point of pain for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ruby on Rails solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ruby on Jets

The implementation of microservices architecture was very easy with this framework.

Since each of its controller will be considered and deployed as a single lambda function. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ashok D.
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What do you like best about Ruby on Rails?

- scaffolding feature gives you fastest development experience

- mvc structure facilates manageable file structure.

- gem library gives you some well developed and tested features without investing time in those features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ruby on Rails?

- upgrading rails version is such a pain, we need to upgrade all the dependecy Which might break your application , need thoroughly testing after rails version upgrade. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ruby on Rails:

For faster development go for this Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ruby on Rails solving and how is that benefiting you?

- stand alone web application development

- embedded shopify applications development

- real estate application development

- survey based application development Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Carlos F.
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Car Rental Agent
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What do you like best about Ruby on Rails?

Ruby on Rails has been growing in the last five years and it's a popular solution to build web applications. You can build agile solutions on the development. This feature makes Ruby on Rails a great tool for many companies around the world where the time it's equivalent to money.

Ruby on Rails it's an on-demand framework love it by experimented and non-experimented developers where we want to simplify common and repetitive tasks easily you can reuse existing components this feature lets you save much time.

Another feature that I love it's the way to implement gems easily you can build great solutions in a lower time.

You can create Unitary Tests using RSpec or web functionality with Capybara or Sellenium. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ruby on Rails?

One of the things that I being facing this time using Ruby on Rails and I hate it; it's where you want to read or write the database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ruby on Rails:

I really recommend Ruby on Rails because it's a Test Driven Development framework where easily you could find bugs and let your clients a professional solution. Implement Ruby on Rails in your company in a short time you will see fast features and save a lot of money reinventing the wheel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ruby on Rails solving and how is that benefiting you?

At my work daily got tickets from our customers requesting new features. Ruby on Rails provides me a fast way to provide work in a lower time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jonathan Alexander C.
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IT Infraestructura y Desarrollo
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What do you like best about Ruby on Rails?

What I like most about this web framework is how fast I can make a page or web application using ruby ​​programming language and simultaneously handle the frontend and backend as a single in the same environment; this makes it agile and magical.

Also, over the years, I have made this tool part of my day-to-day functions at work since I do not need more tools to interact with the database or the console of my project; if not, I can achieve this in the same environment.

It is a tool that integrates with any operating system but for me it is more comfortable to use it in Linux operating systems such as CentOS or Ubuntu, they are the two distributions that I use and at the moment it is easy to configure and to be able to prepare the environment which makes it even friendlier and the best option when selecting an IDE for projects in Ruby or Rails. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ruby on Rails?

what I don't like sometimes is the handling of javascript and some javascript gems that don't work well, but in new versions this has been improving.

Another issue is the cost, perhaps some developers cannot buy it at first, which makes it a tool for companies, there should be a version for independent developers with low resources or who are just starting out Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ruby on Rails solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have made several applications in the company and this framework has helped us a lot to speed up these developments and at the same time to have a quality product and more now with the management of APIs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jordi L.
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Software Developer
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What do you like best about Ruby on Rails?

Ruby on Rails is a great framework for building RESTful apps. It's extremely intuitive and easy to use and read. You can build powerful apps with just a few commands, and setting up a database for your API is extremely simple. Also the community is amazingly helpful, and given that Ruby is so popular nowadays most of the problems you'll come in contact with have an easy-to-follow solution online, just a couple of clicks away. There are also a lot of great talks on youtube by Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) on Ruby, Rails and RESTful apps which are really easy to follow and cover everything on the subject. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ruby on Rails?

I can't say there's much I dislike about Ruby on Rails. My only issue is downloading and setting everything up to use on my workstations, but once that's dealt with everything's smooth sailing from there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ruby on Rails:

It's always fun to learn new frameworks, so the least you can do is give it a try. I guarantee you won't regret it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ruby on Rails solving and how is that benefiting you?

All of my backend developing is done on Ruby on Rails, and I wouldn't change it for anything else. It has a Gem (a Ruby library) for anything you might need, and the framework as a whole is extremely well organized, allowing you to work using a lot of different practices, like TDD or Test Driven Development, really easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vũ Q.
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Software Engineer
Computer Software
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What do you like best about Ruby on Rails?

- Building Web application quickly.

- Lots of useful gems

- Provide lots of resources for working and researching.

- Documents and Tutorials are detail and updated.

- Large community with strongly support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ruby on Rails?

They bring "magic" to the framework that it is hard to control when the app becomes bigger. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ruby on Rails:

For startup: It is suitable for them as they build a web application as quick as possible.

Students and Developers can learn from Ruby on Rails framework to be familiar with MVP pattern, review OOP design and others Design Patterns.

Ruby on Rails also provides lots of useful gems which are need for web development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ruby on Rails solving and how is that benefiting you?

Building webapp fast enough to show the features, improvements for my projects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
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What do you like best about Ruby on Rails?

One of the great things about Ruby on rails is that it is so easy to read other peoples code.

I also love that there are so many great library is that you can plug-in to really enhance your code velocity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ruby on Rails?

I think that there are some languages like elixir which have better tools for debugging. But overall with a lot of the rails library’s, it has everything that I need on a day-to-day basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ruby on Rails:

Make sure there are a lot of good developers in your community who know Ruby on rails already. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ruby on Rails solving and how is that benefiting you?

I’m solving problems in terms of building with SMS chat bots. Ruby on rails is the tool that we use for our backend code. We also use Ruby on rails for different authentication purposes and for some of our view layers with admin tools and with client portal’s. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Guy E.
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What do you like best about Ruby on Rails?

There is a wealth of documentation and community support out there for getting up to speed with Ruby on Rails (RoR) quickly. Most of the ideas you can think of for a new application already have gems / plugins / tutorials that show you exactly how to get what you want without writing a lot of code. In many cases, you can write some code that is your best guess as to how something should work, and it will cover 80% of the cases you need to handle, thus giving you a minimally viable product (MVP) you can bring to market quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ruby on Rails?

Although you can get 80% of what you want quickly, the remaining 20% takes 2x to 4x more time to get than with any other solution we've tried.

Both Ruby (the language) and Rails (the framework) were written assuming that they would be used only very specific ways. As your project -- no matter what project it is -- grows, those assumptions no longer fit your use case, and you find yourself fighting the language and framework more than it is helping you. RoR makes it very easy to keep adding scope to your MVP to the point where you have so much technical debt that you end up having to rewrite everything. What was once fast and easy for you to iterate on is now very slow and hard to maintain. It is very easy to get into but hard to master; consequently, it's hard to find qualified RoR talent without paying 2x what it costs for Java Enterprise developers. In short, RoR does not scale as your business scales; it becomes an albatross.

Lastly, we hate that it only really runs well on Linux. It barely runs at all on Windows, requiring our team members that use Windows to run a VM just to work with Rails. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ruby on Rails:

Only use Ruby on Rails for prototyping / creating a minimally viable product. Plan for the right time to start transitioning away from RoR as your product / project grows. RoR is good as "glue" between other larger services, but not as an enterprise product. Don't fall into the common trap of continuing to add more and more functionality to your MVP until it eventually becomes a large, slow, difficult to maintain monolith that scales poorly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ruby on Rails solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our business needed a way to quickly turn an e-commerce idea into a minimally viable product we could start selling immediately. It was a good fit for our start-up to see if our idea(s) had legs, and to pivot quickly as we found our product-market fit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Renu R.
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What do you like best about Ruby on Rails?

Very Easy to learn. Even beginners can design well functional websites with-in a few days using Ruby on Rails. There are very good tutorials for your help.

Development is very fast compared to other frameworks.

Very supportive and active community.

Regular updates on Ruby on Rails

Free Third Party Packages (GEMS)

Building Minimum viable product is very time efficient.

Great testing support

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What do you dislike about Ruby on Rails?

Performance is not that good when the application grows and reaches scales of millions of users. If the app is big, it takes a lot of time doing simple stuff. So it's like a trade-off between performance and ease of use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ruby on Rails:

It very easy to learn and start with. So just dive in without second thoughts. Community support is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ruby on Rails solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used Ruby on Rails for a couple of projects. One of them was to design a portal for automatic synchronization of data center inventory. I spent less than one week to set up the whole system and able to design a working solution as most of the desired functionalities were available in terms of libraries. Feasibility testing was also very easy and development was very fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.