Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails is new MVC-based web application development platform, which has few significant advantages comparable to other web development technologies like PHP, JSP or ASP.NET:

• Ruby language syntax makes it possible to write less lines of code to get same result
• strict MVC framework assures good code structure and lets involve more developers in the same project achieving better turnaround times
• scaffolding makes it possible to build low cost prototypes
• built-in support for various tests posivitely affects the quality

Main disadvantages are complexity of Ruby language and low performance (mainly due to the heavy ORM library used in Rails).

Due to the shortage of developers familiar with Ruby on Rails iDeveloperNetwork have built its own educational course in order to make existing developers familiar with Ruby on Rails, which includes:

• several case-based tutorials
• number of ‘bugfix’ or ‘modification’ tests that developer should do in a short time on our interactive_coder_assessment_solution
• knowledge base which contains non-obvious solutions already provided by our developers for typical problems

To address the performance risks, we have compared benchmarks for PHP and Ruby on Rails applications, providing same functionality.
As a result we can say that Ruby on Rails is 3-4 times slower then PHP.

At the moment we are running few projects based on Ruby on Rails, which should soon appear on Our representative projects page.