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13 Sites You Love Built With Ruby On Rails

YoungUpstarts

If you are reading this, you are probably into Ruby and obviously heard of Ruby on Rails – a useful and super popular web application framework. With the help of our friends from Rails Ware Web Development Company , we have gathered 13 famous sites built with Ruby on Rails framework: 500px.

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A Startup CTO’s Take on Early Technology Choices & Tradeoffs

View from Seed

If you want to build a website that, say, keeps track of your favorite restaurants, you might think, “Ruby along with Rails are great choices here, so let’s do that.” Distributing work using job queues is cheap now and expensive later, because you’ll have to rethink how a lot of your code works.

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Founders: Learning should be your top 2013 New Year’s resolution

The Next Web

Social media marketing for startups : How to use social to launch, position your messaging and get distribution. Learn Ruby on Rails , an incredibly powerful and highly scalable object-oriented language, with this ten step tutorial. Startup Hiring : How to attract, hire and retain the best people. Codecademy.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

“The short answer is that it will take 10 hours,” answers Werdelin, who built a Twitter clone in a one-day Ruby on Rails course. Assume $160 for a Ruby on Rails course plus free Heroku, a cloud platform as a service that allows you to instantly deploy an app. But a good developer could make it quicker.”.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

January has been a very bad month for Ruby on Rails developers, with two high-severity security bugs permitting remote code execution found in the framework and a separate-but-related compromise on rubygems.org, a community resource which virtually all Ruby on Rails developers sit downstream of. Many startups use Ruby on Rails.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

For most of its existence, PHP didnt have a standard package-distribution system or very good module support. Good article, this is exactly the reason Im still primarily a PHP developer rather than Ruby or Python. And this all came bundled up in another bad practice: a big monolithic interpreter. So heres to the team that built PHP.

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The Impact of Community

Duct Tape Marketing

This company is a project management tool that invented Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails has spawned thousands upon thousands of startups as a framework, as an infrastructure to build products on. Meaning events, magazines, blogs, they read, so you could distribute your content there. 14:21): So that was the second piece.