Ruby on Rails Development
Ruby is a highly dynamic, open source programming language that has an elegant and highly expressive syntax and a vibrant open-source community. Rails is a web framework built in Ruby that is also highly expressive and feature-rich. Ruby on Rails (RoR) has become extremely popular over the last 3 years as a web framework for custom applications. It is designed to be user-friendly with built-in libraries for high performing web applications. This allows for rapid implementation with pre-built plug-ins which ultimately saves development time and costs.
RoR is not intended to be all things to all clients but is designed to be the foundation of a well designed web application. RoR provides developers with the basic building blocks needed to make just about any web application. Because of its flexibility, we can quickly meet your specific business needs by adding custom features and functionality that many other technologies cannot provide within the same timeline and budget.
 "Equal parts design philosophy and development environment, Rails offers developers a few key code-level advantages when constructing database-backed Web applications. One of the central tenets emphasizes using less code for application development by avoiding redundancy and following Rails conventions. This means increased performance and, ideally, decreased development times." |
Some other benefits of Ruby on Rails include:
- Rails provides an integrated application testing framework that will help find errors before your users find them which saves money in the long run.
- Rails redefined RAD (Rapid Application Development) for the web. Leveraging this speed of development has shown to save both time and money.
- Rails also simplifies AJAX to allow for enhanced usability and a more satisfying end user experience.
- Due to Rails mantra of "convention over configuration", those familiar with the Rails framework can easily anticipate how the application works resulting in a highly maintainable code base.
- When Rails first emerged, Rails had a reputation for not being scalable, but newer versions of Rails have overcome that reputation and now power some of the largest sites on the internet.
- Rails has a wealth of plugins and third party (commercial and open source) solutions which prevent developers having to spend time and money reinventing the wheel for each application.
Some well known web applications that were written in Ruby on Rails include:
