Why use ruby on rails?

A lot of other Rails developers used to use PHP, and were attracted to the Ruby world for technical reasons. Ruby developers are particularly eager to continuously evolve their tools. Rails was an early adopter of Git (version control) and GitHub, and there's a strong focus on testing frameworks that is less common in PHP. read more

Even though Ruby on Rails is going to write a lot of the SQL for you. The concepts are still going to be present. And it's important to have an understanding of what it means to join two tables together, using a foreign key. read more

Of course, today we are asking “why use Ruby on Rails”; thus, this is a debate for another time. Admittedly, Ruby misses out on some features that other languages have (Lisp hmm, hmm). All-in-all, Ruby is close to the top of the ‘language power continuum’. read more