Rails

What is Rails?

Rails is the short name for Ruby on Rails, a fullstack development framework written in Ruby. Rails was released as open source by David Heinemeier Hansson in 2004.

Learn more about Ruby on Rails.

Rails' Features

Pros:

• Rails has an easy learning curve and lots to offer intermediate and advanced users
• Because it's so easy to learn, it's easy to train developers on Rails and raise team bus factor
• There are many apps and libraries (RubyGems) that extend the Rails framework with an even more extensive set of pre-built features
• Rails uses a modular Model-View-Controller architecture
• Rails allows quick building and shipping, and is great for businesses on a budget
• Rails enforces strong standards, and that standardization makes it more consistent and readable than other options
• An enormous community and deep bench of available help, documentation and extra tools

Cons:

• Ruby doesn't support machine learning as well as other choices
• Rails often applications have slower runtimes than other options (because of Ruby itself), but most developers consider this negligible
• Rails can be a bit rigid, but it's so vast that

Using Rails with OpsMaru

It's easy to build platforms for your Rails apps with OpsMaru. As you click through the infrastructure builder, you will choose which framework your app uses. Select Rails, and then select any add-ons you would like to use (like Active Job, GoodJob, etc.). Then pick the right runtime for you. And that's it, you're ready to go.