Ruby on Rails Reviews & Product Details

The productivity offered here is truly unmatched. With Rails, I can turn an idea into a working prototype more quickly than with any other framework I’ve tried. The blend of sensible defaults, generators, and scaffolding allows me to start building real features from day one, rather than spending time configuring build tools or figuring out folder structures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The current state of frontend development is honestly quite frustrating. Rails was originally designed for a server-rendered environment, and although Hotwire and Turbo represent commendable efforts to update this model, the truth is that achieving a genuinely modern, reactive frontend experience still leads to an awkward integration process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

rails 8 introduced many new features that make it relevant like supporting async calls, deployment related improvements ,authentications and performance improvements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Though ruby on rails has added new features, there are things that it does not support natively, Need improvement at greater speed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ruby on Rails is really easy to start using, has a thriving community and can be written like English. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

On the flip side, it's not so good in handling concurrency and scalability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Innovative Framework for building real life applications without dependency hells and a streamlined well though development for highly maintanable applications. You can use a Frontend Framework like React, Angular etc, but you can go without and build well maintable and great applications. The current approaches using Hotwired Turbo and Strada allow to build mobile applications too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's not a solution for all problems this world have. Don't try to use it, what it is not made for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have used ruby on rails for almost 8 years from 2.x to 5. Development in ruby on rails is rapid and they way it structure code with the rake commands that improves the quality of code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ruby on rails comes with lots of breaking changes whenver a new version releases and that makes life of a developer difficult if you want to migrate from old to new version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Efficient way to write code.

Supports rapid development.

Offers useful gems for web development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

New versions may introduce breaking changes, making migration challenging Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simple to use, powerful, intuitive, quite popular Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

steep learning curve, trying to do everything at once Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its lemma DRY - Don't repeat yourself promotes not writing twice the same code but using mechanisms and tools provided by Ruby and its framework Rails.

Besides the way to create backend and frontend (now with Stimulus) is very clear, concise and standard.

This leads to short code that is easy to understand, to debug and to correct.

For the errors I have had with the framework I have opened issued in github and several people have jumped to solve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish there would be more tools for Stimulus to make nice frontends even easier, but it is on very good way for that.

For newcomers the learning curve is step but it is worth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ruby on Rails is an excellent choice for developing simple applications or early stage business products due to its full-stack scaffolding capabilities. It provides developers with the ability to quickly get up and running without having to write a lot of code. This means that developers can focus on the functionality they need in order to create their product or application, rather than spending time writing boilerplate. This is amplified drastically by utilizing IDE and intelli-sense tools like Github co-pilot. Development speed is incredible.

The framework also has fantastic support from its creators at Basecamp, including various auxillary libraries like Stimulus JS. They continue to release updates and new versions, as well as providing helpful documentation and tutorials that make it easier for new developers to get started. Additionally, there is a thriving community of experts and professionals who are always willing to lend a hand when needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

On the flip side, Rails has a lot of "philosophical conventions" that doesn't necessarily match with modern web paradigms and also allows critical parts of the website functionality to happen magically. The later is only a problem in the early/middle of adoption, as the debugging can be time-consuming and demoralizing and as a result you'll learn to make fewer mishaps. Pairing Rails with a solid IDE and a tool like Github Co-pilot significantly reduce the painpoints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It gives us the power of rapid development and is battle-hardened for long term use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vibrant 3rd party package (gem) community, but many of them are out of date Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.