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Stream
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Bootstrap
The most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.
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PostgreSQL
Mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we don't work with pull requests on github. To contribute, please see https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Submitting_a_Patch
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Laravel
Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation for your next big idea — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.
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turbo
The speed of a single-page web application without having to write any JavaScript (by hotwired)
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view_component
A framework for building reusable, testable & encapsulated view components in Ruby on Rails.
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Ruby on Rails discussion
Ruby on Rails reviews and mentions
Posts with mentions or reviews of Ruby on Rails. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-12-04.
- Django 6 Released
Django needs a marketing push. I opened the website and immediately it smells like a 2011 web framework. Like CakePHP. Like Zend. Like Kohana.
The site makes the project feel extremely dated, which of course I have no idea how true that is, I've never used Django! Just my 2c from an outsider.
I compare it to Phoenix and Rails. (again, talking PURELY marketing here dudes!)
https://www.phoenixframework.org/
https://rubyonrails.org/
- Bazzite: The next generation of Linux gaming
- Rails 7.1 Framework Defaults 🚧
Previous value: nil New value: false Purpose: To understand the impact of enabling this particular flag I had to go through some PRs on rails official repo and came across the following PR. The description of which provides an important hint towards a bug that exists with the deprecated behavior of comparing AC::Parameters with a Hash
- Friendly Attributes Pattern in Ruby
- Rails 8.1 Released
- Ruby on Rails 8.1 Released
- When AI Moved Into My Editor: Faster… and Weirdly Slower
From there, I went into a long phase of copy & paste: throw code at an LLM, ask it to analyze or rewrite, and stitch the result back in. It kind of worked. When reasoning models arrived, my confidence went up: wait a minute, wait three—freshly baked code appears. In Rails, that meant small adjustments and I was done. In Marten, I had to correct more, which made sense — newer framework, less model knowledge.
- Use singular nouns for database table names
> they often automatically pluralize, with the predictable result of seeing tables with names like addresss.
This is a very poor example, that case is literally in their unit tests file:
https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/b0c813bc7b61c71dd21ee3a6...
- Rails 8.1 Beta
Full list of changes:
https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v8.1.0.beta1
- How to Choose the Right Tech Stack for Your SaaS MVP
Ruby on Rails (developer-friendly, great for startups)
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rails/rails is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of Ruby on Rails is Ruby.
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Review ☆☆☆☆☆ /10
I've been working with RoR for a decade.
Review ★★★★★ 10/10
The most productive web-development framework. Time and battle tested. Always improving.