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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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Ruby on Rails: Five tips for cleaner controller code

Austin Startup

For handling requests, move the business logic out of controllers and into plain old Ruby objects like Service objects (app/services) or models (app/models) that don’t inherit from ActiveRecord, and call that in your controller to handle the business logic. Rule of thumb: your controller actions should be no more than 5–7 lines of code.

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Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

Or you might have an investor (or founder) who's convinced that you need to work in a given language (some VCs love Ruby right now). Misconception #1 - "You can build things 10x faster in Ruby." Bottom line, you really are not seeing that much different between Ruby/Rails and Groovy/Grails in terms of development speed.

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Learn To Code With One Month Rails

YoungUpstarts

Part of Y Combinator ’s Summer 2013 batch of startups, The online resource for web development to date has taught more than 9,000 people Ruby on Rails, one of the most widely-used web programming technologies today. Resources coding One Month Rails programming Ruby on Rails startup web development Y Combinator'

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

Netty , Vert.x , and Java servlets are fast, but we were surprised how much faster they are than Ruby , Django , and friends. and Ruby on Rails is staggering. Ruby 2.0.0-p0. . --> Whoa! Before we did the benchmarks, we were guessing there might be a 4x difference. But a 40x difference between Vert.x Two Amazon EC2 m1.large

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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

Netty , Vert.x , and Java servlets are fast, but we were surprised how much faster they are than Ruby , Django , and friends. and Ruby on Rails is staggering. Ruby 2.0.0-p0. . --> Whoa! Before we did the benchmarks, we were guessing there might be a 4x difference. But a 40x difference between Vert.x Two Amazon EC2 m1.large

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How to Choose a Programming Language as a Tech Startup

The Startup Magazine

Ruby is generally adopted by small companies, owing to its experimental and exploratory community. Java, C# and.net tend to be more stable, while languages such as Ruby on Rails or node.js Ruby with Ruby on Rails Framework. Similar to Python, Ruby was designed to be as intuitive and enjoyable to use as possible.