Benefits of Ruby on Rails for Web Application Development

by Jay Dee AndolaSoft

Ruby on rails has been one of the top most popular and advanced server site web frameworks for a few years. Bu still, some investor ask why we suggest Ruby on rails to develop their web application since all other framework and languages are available.

And obviously, they do not have any clue about it, it’s sure.

When you think a bit about it, it does seem there right is to ask as he/she the person who is investing to build the object and is going to use it as well.

So before I embark to the discussion of the benefits for using Ruby on Rails, let me explain first what Ruby on Rails actually is.

What is Ruby on Rails:

Ruby is a dynamic; fully object-oriented scripting language created back in 1995. Using HTML, Javascript and CSS developers can build an architecturally clean and high-quality web application.

During the building of Basecamp in 2005, David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) envisioned a controlling library over the Ruby programming language, thus originating the rails framework. Later he made it extensible and flexible and uprooted with the open-source market.

And the framework was further improved and makes the breakthrough for web application development.

The Key principle of RoR development is “Convention over Configuration”. It means the developer does not need to spend much time to configure the files in order to set up where are Rails comes with a set of convections that helps to speed up the development process.

From the management point of view, Ruby on rails community supports an iterative development method knows as Agile Development. This Method encourages the collaborative and flexible approach which well appropriate for the web app development with fast-changing necessities.

Over the years Ruby on Rails has been upgrading its version (Currently: 6.0.0.beta3 – March 13, 2019) and gained a huge following.

I think this is enough for the introduction. Now Let’s see the advantages of using this framework on web application development.

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