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The Advantages of Ruby on Rails Web Hosting

Ruby on Rails (RoR) is one of the many programming languages available to new webmasters and is aimed and advertised as being the easiest to setup and the most fun to deploy. Find a good Ruby on Rails Web Host may be tough, but at Lunarpages you are welcome to use RoR on any of our plans.

While there are certain disadvantages to using the Ruby on Rails framework, there are also a great many advantages that may far outweigh its shortcomings.

Quick Application Building

Applications can often take months or even years to build. Depending on the intricacy of the project at hand, a new web application built with Java can take at least five to ten days. Using RoR can cut the build time down to a day. In fact, many Ruby on Rails applications only take several minutes to build – for example, you can build a webblog in 15 minutes or a search feature for Flickr in 5. The best part is that this is all with no prior Ruby on Rails training or knowledge in the field.

Speed

Besides being simple enough to create applications almost instantly, the Ruby language is easy to learn and helps you use less code to do the same actions you would with other languages in twice as many lines. For example, PHP and Perl may require twice the code that Ruby on Rails would for the same kind of application.

Because RoR is easy and simple, developer productivity is enhanced by the swift feedback loop. A feedback loops simply allows you to see your work you’ve done in an actual browser after you’ve added the code. With RoR, you get an almost instant picture of what you’ve accomplished, which means you don’t have to wait around to see your application in action.

Simplicity

The Rails framework is impressively intuitive in that it is mostly database-oriented. RoR preaches convention over configuration, which makes for an extremely productive but simple code. Unlike other programming languages that force you to start from scratch and completely build out the standards, RoR only needs minimal configuration code as Ruby already provides most of it. This simplification is part of Ruby on Rails’ charm and can add to the productivity of any web application.

Popularity

There are a ton of sites that use Ruby on Rails at this point, and popularity has helped RoR grow from a simple idea to a great framework. Sites like BaseCamp use Ruby on Rails for online project management, while other sites like Blurb use it for personal book publishing. There are even search engines built with rails, such as ChaCha, advertised as the first human-powered search engine.

All in all, it’s up to you to decide if this new framework is right for your next application, but odds are giving it a shot will definitely benefit you and your business.