Ruby on Rails

What is Ruby on the Rails?

Rails is a productive web application development framework written in the Ruby language. Its was created in 2003 by David Heinemeier Hansson.  Ruby is to Rails as PHP is to Symfony and Zend, or as Python is to Django. Now a days, Ruby gaining popularity in US and Europe countries. The main factors its popularity – open source, easy to extend, easy to write code, object oriented,easily readable, less coding with fewer bugs, and easy to use also. It is designed to make programming easier and you could develop a web application at least ten times faster with Rails than you could with a typical Java framework. It allows you to write less coding with fewer bugs. Hundreds of contributors who submit new features, find bugs, and make speed improvements.

A few point of Ruby

·         Ruby is the successful combination of −

o   Smalltalk's conceptual elegance,

o   Python's ease of use and learning, and

o   Perl's pragmatism.

·         Ruby is −

o   A high-level programming language.

o   Interpreted like Perl, Python, Tcl/TK.

o   Object-oriented like Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, Java.

Why we use Ruby on Rails

Ruby on rails web application development framework much faster than with other frameworks. Its object-oriented nature of Ruby and its has good testing frameworks. Rails has developed a strong focus on testing, Vast collection of open source code available within the Rails community. The Rails conventions also make it easy for developers to move between different Rails projects, as each project will tend to follow the same structure and coding practices. Rails is good for rapid application development (RAD), as the framework makes it easy to accommodate changes. Ruby code is easily readable and fewer lines code than other framework. Rails works with many database systems, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server. This increases productivity, as there is less need to writeout separate documentation, making it easier for other developers to pick up existing projects. Rails and most of its libraries are open source, so unlike other commercial development frameworks there are no licensing costs involved.

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