When a Startups web development is made in the language of Ruby, you get a clear hint of a company’s work style and culture. Much of this is because the Rails developer needs to be stay up to date with the web and new technologies as It’s the nature of the Ruby framework to change and evolve rapidly and a RoR developer must keep up with the pace. Facing continues change and development suits with the very essence of a startup.
So, one might ask, why should a startup get involved with Ruby, as a development language?
There are a number of valid reasons for this:
- Ruby is Clean, elegant & easy to read. As the name ‘Ruby’ implies, the language is designed to be enjoyable to use.
- Ruby on Rails is an open-source framework and extremely dynamic. These offers the ability to allow programmers to pass the codes to their successors, which is a vital when the developing team at a startup is still growing or outsourced. With Ruby, if your development project needs adjustment or add-on functions, it would be very flexible and fast to deploy.
- Using Ruby is very efficient in terms of time as development time is very rapid.
Thus, the start-up’s time to market would be cut down considerably. - Efficient in terms of cost. Ruby on Rails does not cost anything to download or use.
It also runs on a free operating system and works with mostly free databases and web servers. - Great for content heavy sites. Ruby on Rails is highly suitable for websites that require a lot of content input, storage and management because you would be easily navigating the site, uploading and managing content. Thus, if you want to build a CRM, CMS or e-commerce system, Ruby on Rails should be a great fit.
Rapid Development within Budget
When in the process of building a Startup, there is a tremendous amount of development with limited resource. Ruby on Rails is designed for speed and simplicity. The code is guided by principles that used in frameworks, allows startups to build required applications with modest budgets while maintaining top quality. Rails framework has a common structure and when a startup hire or outsource developers, they immediately know where to find what.
This is very much consistent with the lean structure of a startup and the requirement for fast, efficient and cost effective project development.
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