Ruby & Rails Web Development
Why Ruby and Ruby on Rails?
Tens of thousands of Ruby and Rails applications are already live, you may even be a user of one and not know it. People are using Rails for digital solutions of small to enterprise scale and that is why SGC offers it as one of our technology solutions. Since its initial release in 1995, Ruby has drawn a huge group of devoted developers worldwide.
The TIOBE index, which measures the growth of programming languages, ranks Ruby as #9 among programming languages worldwide. Much of this is attributed to the popularity of web applications written using Ruby and particularly the Ruby on Rails web development framework.
Advantages
- Ruby is totally free of charge to use
- It is also free to copy, modify, and distribute
- Most Linux distros support Ruby and Rails
- Ruby on Rails and its dependencies through their native package management system
- Ruby can be deployed on a web server such as Apache
- Ruby and Rails play well with a database server such as MySQL
Ruby on Rails is separated into various packages, ActiveRecord (an object-relational mapping system), ActiveResource (provides web services), ActionPack, ActiveSupport and ActionMailer. All of these elements allow SGC’s developers the ability to make plugins to extend existing packages which brings fast, stable solutions to our clients..
