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| What is Ruby on Rails? |
Ruby on Rails is an open source framework that's optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration.
The powerful language behind Rails is Ruby, a easy-to-learn programming language that focuses on simplicity and productivity. Released in 1995, Ruby has been used in applications ranging from simple scripts to enterprise integration applications. Easy to learn, Ruby provides Rails with an impressive, enterprise class list of features that breathes new life into daily development.
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| When to use Ruby on Rails. |
Ruby on Rails is best suited to creating database-backed web applications. Examples include:
- Data warehousing and mining
- Statistics reporting
- Management systems
- Collaborative applications
- Community sites
- E-commerce applications
- Content management systems
Ruby on Rails has so many applications that it is easier to tell when not to use it:
- If you are creating an operating system
- If you have no database to connect to
- You don't need a web front-end
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| Why use Ruby on Rails ? |
There are many reasons to use Ruby on Rails. Here are the most prominent:
- Productivity Gains
- Smaller teams
- Improved time to market
- More simultaneous projects
- Exponential savings when productivity gains are combined
- Code management
- Less code = easier management
- Ability to have faster iterations
- No compiling means you see the newest code sooner
- Simpler solution for the most common business problem:
- Putting a web front-end on a database
- Backed by industry visionaries
- Open source
- Growing community
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