Discovering the Benefits of Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails refers to a new method of developing web applications. Everyone has been raving about it due to the fact that it’s almost ten times faster at creating new web applications using Ruby on Rails than it is using other frameworks. In order to understand Ruby on Rails, first you need to understand Ruby and Rails separately.

Understanding Ruby
Ruby is a lot like Perl, Python, or PHP. It other words, it’s a programming language. However, those who use Ruby feel this particular programming language contains more powerful and sophisticated syntax over other programming languages. Ruby language appears to combine some of the best that other languages offer. For example, the ease of use of Python, Perl’s simplicity, and Smalltalk’s conceptual elegance. The Ruby language originated during the early 1990s. However during the past few years it has started to become very popular among programmers from all around the world.

Understanding Rails
Rails was written with Ruby and is a web application framework that is open source. A program’s framework is all the reusable code and components that are able to used in the main application. It is basically a type of support structure that can be used for any program. There are many frameworks that are available for programmers to use. However, the Rails framework has become increasingly popular for several reasons.

When the framework Ruby on Rails is used, it takes less than one tenth of the amount of time it would taking for developing the web application if the regular Java framework was used. The main reason for this is because of Ruby language being used when writing the framework. Most of the other languages don’t allow for many things that are very simple and easy to do when the Ruby language is used. Because Rails was written using Ruby, it is able to take complete advantage of Ruby’s features. There are two other major guiding principles that make Ruby on Rails much faster and simpler to use.

* Less software. Less code is needed for creating a web application. Because less code needs to be written, it takes less time to develop an application. In addition when you have less code it’s easier to learn, understand and maintain than with more complex coding.

* Convention over configuration. In Rails there aren’t any lengthy XML configuration files. Instead a few simple programming conventions are built right into Rails enabling it to figure out what it needs using a process of discovery and reflection. Whatever it is that Rails needs to have knowledge about, it discover it automatically from the web application code that is running the database. This leaves you with almost nothing to do.

In summary, the Ruby on Rails framework creates web applications written with Ruby programming language.

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