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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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Recent Ruby on Rails Reviews

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?

The ruby language is rich and natural.

The rails framework made development so easy and fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ruby on Rails?

It has become way to heavy and way too much "magic" behaviors that have to be learned. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ruby on Rails:

Rails is a good option but, Node/NoSQL seems to be more performant and easier to work with, you should evaluate several options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

eCommerce. Faster and less costly development with simplified deployment and host. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
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What do you like best about Ruby on Rails?

Rails provides fantastic tooling that helps you to deliver more features in less time. Lots of ready-to-use libraries and gems. Large community, so it's easy to get a support when you get stuck. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ruby on Rails?

Runtime Speed: Ruby on Rails might be "slow", especially for highload projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ruby on Rails:

Do not doubt :) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Products of different scale: from start-ups to complex corporate solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in E-Learning
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What do you like best about Ruby on Rails?

It's written in Ruby. I like principles such as convention over configuration, don't repeat yourself, using MVC and ORM. It's easy to find libraries (gems). It's open source and has a significant community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ruby on Rails?

I don't like turbolinks and problems with assets pipeline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I make prototypes in a fraction of time compared to other ways/implementations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Federico L.
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What do you like best about Ruby on Rails?

It's ease of use and how fast you can put together a working website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ruby on Rails?

Convention over configuration is OK, though when something not standard needs to be done is sometimes painful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ruby on Rails:

Participate actively in the Rails community, which is very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

From small to medium sites, mostrly for small companies or individuals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
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What do you like best about Ruby on Rails?

Convention over configuration. Easy to get a web project up and running with a nice framework to work in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ruby on Rails?

Not scalable for large web projects. Although convention over configuration approach can help speed up development for most projects, it can sometimes get in the way when you have requirements that don't "fit into the box" that Rails provides. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Custom software that doesn't fit into the box of a standard CMS. Have done other projects with more varied requirements as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Convention over configuration is the best thing that i've seen in ROR Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ruby on Rails?

Little slow compared to other, so i can say performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Using RoR makes us develop web applications build faster than ever before. Training new employees is like peace of cake. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Ruby on Rails?

ActiveRecord makes dealing with databases a breeze. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ruby on Rails?

One issue with Rails is that release schedule is not stable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Creating a web application in a quick as easy fashion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Program Development
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What do you like best about Ruby on Rails?

Very convenient, lots of libraries for most use-cases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ruby on Rails?

Dynamic typing is error-prone and not expressive enough Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Doing intranet services. The main benefit is the quick prototyping Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Diana Janeth E.
DE
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What do you like best about Ruby on Rails?

The mapping with the database and the easy integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ruby on Rails?

The rendering performance is a little slow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

ecommerce, cms, saas Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
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What do you like best about Ruby on Rails?

Its simplicity using principles like DRY and convention over configuration, enabling you to achieve great products very fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ruby on Rails?

The absence of the inclusion of a superset of HTML like Haml or Slim instead of ERB to simplify the creation of views. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Core principles help organize code from day-one helping to construct my products with confidence. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.