Ruby On Rails For Highly Scalable Web Apps

By Author: Mark Royson
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Ruby on Rails is an open source web development framework written in Ruby language. Ruby language existed 10 years before Ruby on Rails came into force for web development purposes. David Hansson developed this framework and released it in July 2004. Later, August 2011 saw the release of Rails 3.1 version.

This framework helps the Ruby on Rail developer to design web applications with a difference. Mostly importantly it is an absolutely free framework. It enhances the developer's productivity and helps him to design with ease.

Rails Web Development

Web development is made easy with RoR tools. It enables to make developmental tasks 'out of the box.' It offers agile web development practices. RoR helps to achieve development efficiencies and enables to deliver a reliable product to the clients.

MVC framework: Rails works on the MVC framework which stands for Model View Controller. The MVC Architecture divides the entire web app into layers, which makes the app easy to be maintained. The framework helps to have a structured and clean code which is flexible and also helps in maintenance.

The ...
... Rails Components include: Active Record, Action Pack, Prototype, Action Mailer, and Action Web Service. A Ruby on Rails developers normally uses all these components together.

Unique Philosophy: It works on two basic principles namely Convention over Configuration (CoC) and Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY). With CoC the developer needs to specify only those aspects that are not standard to the application. Only the unconventional stuff needs to be coded. DRY helps to find information in a single location facilitating development and maintenance. This design and layout gives it a competitive edge over than programming languages.

Developers' Perspective

Object-driven programming language and easy to learn

RoR developers need to develop codes only in those sections where there is a deviation from the standard format. It saves time and gets the work done faster

Increases work productivity for the developers

Provides a platform for developers to use their creativity to make better programming codes

Helps to reduce the 'confusion' aspect for developers. With RoR it is possible to complete the work faster than with other programming languages.

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