Ruby on Rails Development Services

Ruby on Rails (simplify as Rails or RoR) is an open-source web application development framework written in the Ruby programming language. The framework facilitates the use of web standards such as JSON or XML for data transfer and HTML, CSS and JavaScript for user interfacing. Rails also emphasizes the use of well-known software engineering patterns and paradigms, including Model–View–Controller (MVC), Convention over Configuration (CoC), Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY), and the Active Record pattern.

Ruby on Rails makes web development easier, providing a pre-built structure for app code, any databases you use, the web pages the application will serve, and everything else you need to build your app. Until now, Rails has been used to build many types of web apps, but most often it is selected for projects involving a lot of complex features and requiring drastic transformations. The framework is also great for little, quick projects to develop prototypes & MVPs. Additionally, you can also use Rails to create web services or APIs that return JSON for use by other applications.

A software framework is a set of reusable components to build web and mobile applications, APIs, microservices, and web services. With the framework, you can speed up the creation and maintenance of your web and mobile applications, end repetitive coding tasks, and enjoy the power of controlling your code.

There are several frameworks out there to choose from. The choice depends mainly on the programing language you picked up for your projects and whether you need it for front-end or back-end development. Depending on this choice developers may take advantage of PHP frameworks (e.g. Symfony or Laravel), ASP.NET framework, Django (Python framework) or Ruby on Rails.

Ruby on Rails is a full-stack development framework, which means that it can cover front-end and back-end development. With Rails you can literally build an entire web app, including the back-end server-side items (controllers, models, routes, business logic) and the front-end functions. Most often Ruby on Rails is used in conjunction with other front-end frameworks and programming languages such as HTMS, CSS, JavaScript, React, Vue, and Angular. Ruby on Rails can be very easily integrated with them to create front-end components quickly and easily.

Back-end development services are about building and maintaining the behind-the-scenes functionality of a website or app. It includes all the necessary connections between an app’s design and its data to make it run smoothly. Back-end development involves everything from server and database configuration to security, APIs, and integration issues. Back-end developers working together with front-end developers are also responsible for connecting all the client-side features with back-end solutions.

In web development, front-end developers focus on programming all visual and interactive elements of a website or app with which users will interact. It is called the client side of the app. Backend development services, also called the server-side, focus on the side of a website or app users can’t see. Back-end solutions consist of the server which provides data on request, the application that channels it, and the database which organizes the information.

For example, when a user browses t-shirts on an e-commerce site, he or she is interacting with the front-end side of the site. After he or she buys the selected item, the information about this transaction is processed through the back-end functions and kept in the database which resides on the server. If the user wants to check on the status of their delivery a few days later, all the relevant information is pulled from the server and presented to the user through the front-end features on the site.

Our back-end developers are skilled in all the most important back-end web & mobile development technologies and frameworks, including:

– Back-end programming languages, including JAVA, Koltin, ASP.NET, Python, PHP, Ruby, SQL

– Software development frameworks, including (in addition to Ruby of Rails) Spring, Micronaut, Django, Flask, Laravel, Symfony, Node.js, and more

– Data development and management based on any database management systems

– Front-end technologies, including HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3

– Server administration skills, including Apache, NGINX, and Microsoft

– Knowledge of RESTful APIs to connect your app with other systems

– Version Control/GIT to track and control changes in your source code

Ruby on Rails includes several features to help increase the speed and productivity of web app development projects, including:

– Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture: Ruby on Rails is based on the MVC architecture that is commonly used to create user interfaces that split the information into three interconnected parts to separate the internal representation of data from how it is presented to and received information from users

– Database Access Library: Ruby on Rails includes Active Record, a powerful library that simplifies data handling in databases by automatically mapping tables to classes and rows to objects

– Common Tasks Libraries: Ruby on Rails also includes several other libraries to simplify the coding of common programming tasks, including validations, session management, etc.

– AJAX Library: It is an extensive library of AJAX functions. Ruby code can be used to generate AJAX code while the associated Java scripting required for AJAX gets generated automatically

– Convention over Configuration: It aids in creating the corresponding advanced components by automatically sensing simple conventional elements

– Customized URL: Custom or Search Engine Friendly URLs can be developed using the Ruby on Rails framework

– Automated Testing & Debugging: RoR has its tests on the code that you write to save you time and ensure gigh code quality. The framework also provides detailed error logs making it easier to debug applications

– Components: They can be used to store reusable code and included to modularize templates

– Scaffolding: This feature let RoR developers easily specify how the database will function. Following that, the framework generates the code following the specification

– Localization: This option lets to integrate the code you have designed within the RoR framework for a larger project

PHP programming language and its frameworks are easier to learn and much more widely used in web development projects, though they are not as powerful Ruby on Rails. Both PHP frameworks (such as Laravel and Symfony) and Ruby on Rails provide developers with an MVC (Model-View-Controller) design pattern in their core and with several tools and libraries to speed up the development work and increase the code quality. The main reason why developers choose Ruby on Rails is that it lets them create new web applications that are high-performance quickly and introduce major changes to their projects easily.

Ruby on Rails has been used to make a variety of web products which include both simple applications (in particular prototypes and MVPs) and more complex e-commerce and social networking platforms as well as SaaS software (where there is a need for many clomplex features and high security measures).

The examples include:

– Airbnb

– Dribbble

– Etsy

– Fiverr

– GitHub

– Groupon

– Shopify

– Twitter

– Zendesk

And many, many more.

Hiring a Ruby on Rails software development company can help you build a website or app for your business faster and more cost-efficiently than using your internal resources. This is because Ruby on Rails software development companies have usually much more experience in creating Rails-based apps than your own people.

The RoR framework is quite demanding to learn as oppose to PHP frmeworks. It also requires several other skills, including front-end web development (HTML, JavaScript, CSS) and database management skills, a good understanding of OOP & MVC, knowledge of cloud computing and APIs, and finally knowledge of the latest updates in the framework.

If you don’t have enough developers that are proficient in these technologies and have enough time for a new project, it is better to hire a professional RoR development company such as Multishoring. We have dozens of RoR developers who can provide you with extraordinary Ruby on Rails rapid application development services. They will help you deliver all your Rails-based projects predictably, using best practices, on time, and meeting all your business expectations.