7 Advantages of Ruby on Rails
Are you wondering about the advantages of Ruby on Rails?
Ruby is a dynamic object-oriented programming language. According to a StackOverflow survey, 6.05% of software developers state Ruby as the programming language that they use extensively for their projects. Ruby developers are also among the top five highest-paid developers.
While the Ruby programming language was developed in 1995, the Ruby on Rails framework was released in 2005. Rails continues to be the popular server-side framework for building web applications.
Today, more than 3 million websites all over the world use Ruby on Rails, with customers, including leading technology enterprises like Twitter, GitHub, Shopify, etc.
If you are wondering why you should choose Ruby on Rails for your next software development project, read on as we explain the top advantages of Ruby on Rails.
Advantages of Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails offers the following top seven advantages to software developers and product owners:
Fast Development Advantage
Ruby on Rails offers faster application development. Ready-to-use libraries and plugins (called gems) are available, allowing developers to build app functionalities quickly. An extensive part of the code base is open-source, too.
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Developers do not have to spend time on boilerplate code, and simple syntax helps achieve more in fewer lines of code. Developers using Ruby on Rails experience 30-40% faster software development time than other programming languages and supporting frameworks.
Adherence to Coding Standards
Ruby on Rails follows standard code and application design principles that enable developers to build high-performance software applications in less time.
Coding principles like conventions over configurations and Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) help developers focus on more essential tasks than configuration file management and declare only unconventional code aspects without repeating code lines.
Compliance with these programming conventions also leads to easy code maintenance and fewer errors.
Ruby on Rails also offers code optimization, where modules handle complex data requirements and perform complex computations.
Scalability/ advantage
The development of a scalable application is the top priority of developers. A scalable application is able to keep up with an increase in user load.
Ruby on Rails gives better performance with an increase in user requests, as server-side code can process user requests directly without any other web service, as in client-server applications.
Shopify is a perfect example of a business application based on Ruby on Rails, with more than 300,000 customers using their application seamlessly.
Maintenance and Testing/ advantage
Ruby on Rails follows a model-view-controller (MVC) architecture. The separation of business logic as models, views as HTML, XML, etc., and the communication between both via controller improve code testing and maintenance. It also helps developers with asynchronous programming techniques for dynamic websites.
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It also offers a comprehensive testing suite, the Minitest tool, that helps developers with syntax, benchmarking, etc.
Ruby on Rails supports test-driven development (TDD) and behavior-driven development (BDD), making the development process more cost-effective and efficient.
Security/ advantage
Ruby on Rails has matured over the years. The current version is stable, with multiple built-in security mechanisms allowing developers to build web applications that are secure from cyber attacks and vulnerabilities.
Ruby on Rails framework offers protection against cross-site scripting, SQL injections, insure direct object reference, social engineering attacks, etc.
Support for Diverse Applications
Developers use Ruby on Rails, a full-stack framework, to build software applications for almost every industry, from e-commerce and entertainment to fintech and healthcare.
Ruby on Rails is a good framework choice for long-term projects that expect high scalabilities, such as content management systems and social networking sites. It is among general-purpose web frameworks that offer full-stack capabilities.
RoR offers an innovative and relatively simple database-backend alternative to J2EE and .Net framework for efficient and cost-effective web application development in every sector for small startups, small-to-medium-sized businesses, and large enterprises.
Strong Community/ advantage
Being an open-source framework, Ruby on Rails enjoys a vibrant community of RoR developers. These developers contribute to the existing Ruby on Rails code base. It has the largest community of contributors on GitHub and is one of the biggest code repositories.
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Extensive documentation is available to help new developers understand the Ruby language and the Ruby on Rails framework.
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FAQs
Some advantages of the Ruby programming language are open-source Ruby code, simple syntax, secure development lifecycle, rapid development, etc.
Some pros of Ruby on Rails include faster development of web apps, a vast collection of third-party libraries and plugins, cost-effectiveness, a big Rails community, etc. Some cons include slow runtime speed, lack of flexibility in some cases, etc.
Developers give priority to Ruby on Rails on Java for web development. It has some clear advantages, such as writing functions in much fewer lines of code than in Java language, leading to fewer coding errors and easy code maintenance.
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