In this presentation, we are discussing the main reasons why startups use Ruby on Rails, and how the technology can benefit your product.

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6 Reasons to Use Ruby on Rails for
Your Startup
Today both established businesses and startups choose Ruby
on Rails as the core technology. The reliability and
cost-effectiveness of RoR make it the most suitable option for
a fresh start.
Famous startups below used Ruby on Rails in their early days.
Some of them still gain from helpful solutions offered by this
framework.
At Codica we recently published an article​ 7 Reasons to Use
Ruby on Rails for Your Startup.
In this presentation, we want to show you how you can benefit
from choosing this framework for your business.
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David Heinemeier Hansson created RoR in 2003 while working
on ​Basecamp​ which was the first Ruby on Rails application.
Since that time, Ruby on Rails has been strengthening its
presence and finally became known as a mature technology for
businesses.
How popular is Ruby on Rails framework these days? According
to ​BuiltWith​, there are ​2,420,813 Ruby on Rails ​websites in the
world, including platforms which used this framework
historically.
Now let’s define what qualities make Ruby on Rails a
startup-intended framework.
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1. Time- and cost-efficiency
Startuppers all over the world use Ruby on Rails for developing
an MVP to prove the feasibility of their business idea.
RoR has multiple features useful for ​rapid prototyping​. Along
with the ready-made modules, they allow building the product
with several core features and launch it within a few days.
Below you can see the initial version of Airbnb created with the
help of Ruby on Rails.
What does speed up development in Ruby
on Rails so much?
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Rails itself
Rails framework has the​ architecture that makes it easier to
model the concept along the line. Developers incorporate
blocks of solution that have already been tackled. As a result,
the right compiling saves them lots of time.
Model-View-Controller
This architectural pattern splits the code functionality into
layers. Following the MVC principle means that developers
focus on important tasks without being distracted by messy
details or the code structure.
Convention over configuration
This strategy simplifies the development process. By following
Rails’ built-in sets of rules, programmers reduce the number of
decisions to be taken. As a result, their code is flexible and
clean.
Gems
Gems are free open-source libraries which number exceeds
156 773 at the moment. The gems significantly streamline the
app development, because they contain many written functions
and solutions to numerous issues. Besides, they are freely
available for downloading.
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All startups regardless of their budget want to develop initial
products at a reasonable cost. That’s when Ruby on Rails
comes to the rescue. It allows generating a robust web app
within an affordable budget. This is possible thanks to the
ready open-source solutions written before.
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2. Rails ensures a high-quality product
Reliability is a key quality for a web solution. Programming in
Rails is closely related to the following methods ensuring the
failure-free performance of the solution:
● Test-Driven Development​ (or just TDD) approach implies
development through testing. It includes tools for
performing fully automated, integrated and functional
testing.
● Behaviour Driven Development​ (or BDD) evolved from
TDD. It checks the accuracy of business task fulfillment.
These methodologies make a strong alliance for a project’s
reliability. The RoR community strongly recommends applying
them in project development.
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3. Scalability
Your project may scale eventually. Its growth might influence
the project’s capability of maintaining high traffic.
Your project should be able to manage increased loads and
process the growing number of requests per second. Thus, it
will serve your goal of attracting lots of customers.
Growth is not an issue when it comes to Ruby on Rails
framework. ​ ​Resistance to high loads​ is another advantage of
Rails. This technology is good for deploying and working in
server clusters and cloud services.
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4. Security and reliability
Startuppers often underestimate the importance of security.
Their main focus is a quick launch of a new product.
However, the protection of your web solution shouldn’t be left
unattended. It is difficult to hack or attack a secure application
or website. Besides, there is a smaller risk of discovering
vulnerabilities. Finally, safety has a great impact on long-term
business sustainability.
Switching to a more reliable and secure framework can take
too much time and effort. Therefore, it would be a wiser
decision to choose a persistent solution which would stay safe
and sound from the very beginning.
Ruby on Rails is a suitable option that you need to make your
solution resistant to vulnerabilities. It has ​a​ ​built-in system of
protection​ ​against the main threats and attacks including:
● SQL Injection
● Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
● Insecure Direct Object Reference or Forceful Browsing
● CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery).
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5. Easy to support with a strong ecosystem
Since its creation in 2004, Ruby has grown into a mature
framework noted for its mass support, a lot of resources and
an enthusiastic community.
Github statistics for 2017 shows that Ruby was in Top-5 by the
number of pull requests.
The framework is developing. It constantly offers coders new
notable options. ​The recently released Rails 6.0​ contains
significant improvements including the default Webpack,
parallel testing, multiple database support, mailer routing and a
new autoloader.
Previously mentioned Germs also get constant updates from
the community.
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Below you can see a picture showing the number of downloads
for the most popular gems:
Source: ​rubygems.org
At the same time, the community's contribution is not limited by
the germs only. RoR-enthusiasts write the clear and detailed
documentation and create useful tech guides and lessons.
Also, the Rails community is always ready to help with solving
problems. If there are some issues with the project, Github or
StackOverflow come to the rescue. These platforms host
enough skilled programmers who will readily offer a proper
solution in a few minutes. Besides, there is a rich repository
there.
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6. RoR provides access to a
high-quality talent pool
Your project requires a team of qualified experts. The more
skilled and capable programmers are, the more reliable,
scalable, and faster product you will get.
RoR developers are known as well-trained coders because Ruby
is rather difficult to learn. As a rule, these specialists have
already mastered other programming languages.
At the same time, the experience in programming is not enough
for mastering Ruby. It requires motivation and dedication to
work. That is why Ruby developers are often in love with the
language and the Rails framework and are passionate about
the projects they work on.
Ruby on Rails is famous for its very active and enthusiastic
community, which often hosts different conferences and
smaller meetups, where programmers can share their
experience and gain useful knowledge.
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The final thoughts
You are free in your choice of a programming language or
framework. However, our experience in creating numerous
MVPs with the help of Ruby on Rails shows that this framework
is a great solution for startups.
Want to know more about our expertise in working with Ruby on
Rails framework? Find a minute to view our ​case study on a
vehicle marketplace​ -​ a ​startup that raised $1 mln of
investment ​and has now grown into a multi-website platform.
Have you come up with a project idea? Let’s ​get in touch​ and
see how we can help bring it to life.
Read the full article on our website: ​ 7 Reasons to Use Ruby on
Rails for Your Startup.
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