{"id":8575,"date":"2016-07-19T11:11:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T11:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.railscarma.com\/how-can-ruby-rails-benefit-web-applications\/"},"modified":"2022-09-01T12:01:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T12:01:30","slug":"how-can-ruby-rails-benefit-web-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.railscarma.com\/it\/blog\/articoli-tecnici\/how-can-ruby-rails-benefit-web-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"How can Ruby on Rails benefit your web applications?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What are some of the major ingredients that spell success for an organization? Among other things, efficiency is one of the essential elements that can help an organization succeed in this fast-paced moving world. Everyone wants to maximize efficiency and your software development too should push you ahead instead of pulling you back. Ruby on Rails with its faster iteration and great utility puts it way ahead of other programming languages. Check out how Ruby on Rails can benefit your web application below<\/p>

Pragmatic approach<\/strong>
Pragmatism is literally ingrained in the rails DNA with its ability to set numerous configuration parameters as framework defaults. This leaves zero scope for any unnecessary complications in the code, resulting in the production of extremely simple and elegant solutions. This inspires the Ruby on rails development community to also maintain this pragmatic mindset.<\/p>

Expressive<\/strong>
Rails language is so expressive in itself that any programmer with or without the rails experience, will understand it. It is almost like English language with only limited use of the DSL. A DSL always feels like a new language but rails strikes a good balance with its DSL, using it only sensibly and never overdoing its use. That’s why, to those who are new to Ruby, it seems pretty odd to realize that it doesn’t seem like a programming language. I think that any programmer, regardless of Rails experience, (and even some non-programmers) could understand this:<\/p>

classe Utente < ActiveRecord::Base
devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable<\/p>

validates_numericality_of :years_of_experience,
:allow_blank => true
acts_as_taggable
acts_as_taggable_on :certificates, :expertise_kinds<\/p>

validates_presence_of :first_name, :last_name, :email<\/p>

has_many :translations<\/p>

has_attached_file :avatar, :styles => {:small => “240×240>”}
has_attached_file :cv
…<\/p><\/blockquote>

In fact you must have realize that it\u2019s just method calls without parentheses. Still, it is just smart naming and inherent usage of Ruby\u2019s excellent syntax<\/p>

Modular design:<\/strong>
Most of the programing languages have a modular design with libraries to let you add specific functionality to your software and Ruby\/Rails are no exception to this. Ruby\u2019s libraries are known as \u201cgems\u201d. These gems are useful in adding all kind of functionality to the web applications. Gems in programming languages are analogous to plugins in wordpress, however they offer a developer more ease in adding features as opposed to anything that the end user can add to it for direct use.<\/p>

Automated Testing:<\/strong>
The rails community puts major emphasis on the testing of the code, which can be extended to great lengths and is good thing to be incorporated. This is because, with features complex enough that need to be broken down int
o their separate parts, each part needs to be tested as it is built to see if it is working as it should. Also, it needs to be made sure that we continue building on new functionality without having to temper with what was already functional.<\/p>

Ruby on Rails is perfect for Web Technologies<\/strong><\/p>