Advantages of Ruby on Rails

Powerful and Simple

Ruby on Rails (or more simply, Rails) is the web development framework that questioned prior assumptions and opened up a new way to create web applications that emphasized simplicity and productivity.

Developing in Rails means:

• a lot less code
• a lot less configuration data
• bringing up basic functionality quickly
• building out new functionality incrementally
• integrated testing

Core Principles

There are three principles behind Rails:

• Don't repeat yourself! (abbreviated DRY): every element of the web application has its specific place and doesn't have to be repeated multiple times across files.
• Convention over configuration: by using practical conventions, most configuration data can be eliminated (however the conventions can be overridden with configuration when necessary).
• Quick turn-around time: by providing an integrated web server and an interpreted language, the results of code modifications can be seen immediately, thereby minimizing the code-debug cycle (with no additional compile step).