Ror - What Does It Offer To My Enterprise?

By Author: Mark Royson
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Every IT solution has its own core substance which is a combination of business type and primary requirements. The definition of such solution varies in both hardware and software for retail - small scale businesses and corporate - enterprise entities. Every solution or development made in the field of IT is either for a large consumer market or for a specific enterprise for specific queries.

An Enterprise Solution

An enterprise solution is a solution that runs core activities of company for its multi-departmental and multi-locational use. In addition to primary internal tasks, these applications are built upon a set of requirements on which company’s business and ROI is based.

Some of the most important points to be considered in an enterprise solution are following:

An enterprise solution requires high level of customization with design and development. Also, it requires the solution specific to certain set of requirements.
In order to fulfill enterprise’s multi-departmental use, these solutions need to be integrated with other systems, software and environments which ...
... sometimes belong to third parties.
The heart of an enterprise solution lies in the amount of security it promises. Also, every enterprise demands support and consultancy in exchange of the large amount they spend on a solution.
These solutions are for a large number of user types and roles. Hence, it is very important that they reflect variety of job types in them.
In addition to security, the solution has to be scalable and update friendly for variety of uses that may come along with time and use.

Where does Ruby on Rails stand?

There exists an opinion amongst some trained programmers that Ruby on Rails (ROR) is slow performing language meant for few CRUD apps and is not ready for enterprise solutions yet. This is not true. Instead, ROR has placed itself dramatically among platforms like J2EE, .NET and PHP.

If we talk about basics, core principles of development like - measuring bottlenecks, tuning SQL queries, DE-normalizing database schema, minimizing IO and using cache carefully- remains unchanged with respect to other platforms. But the reason for which ROR is preferable is that it has been proved to be greatly extensible, expandable, fast in development and multi-purpose. Also, Rails is very effective and decent on the presentation end of any application. In addition, ROR can scale as much as J2EE, PHP or .NET can with equal standards of security.

Ruby on Rails offer simpler and easier development process using MVC architecture with help of a bunch of large building blocks which are easily changeable and expandable. In order to achieve customized solution or functionality, developers can use, integrate, change and reuse these blocks. This saves a lot of time on the development and maintenance part. In addition to codes offered from Rails libraries, it helps standardizing certain rules and their collaboration with one another as per developer’s needs.

Softweb Solutions is a leading ROR Web Application Development Company. We provide rich Enterprise solutions for the Ruby on Rails (ROR) platform. The platform is greatly utilized to develop strong web applications, blogs, shopping carts, e-commerce portals and social network solutions for enterprises. For more information on ROR Application Development, contact us at info@softwebsolutions.com