Ruby on Rails development means dynamic and versatile applications written in a mature language with a huge community. It offers stability that directly translates into successful, hassle-free maintenance for years with future scalability.

Good developers will know how to tap the magic of Rails and use the saved time to focus on business features and application logic.

User Examples: Dribbble, Hulu, Airbnb, Github, Bloomberg, Shopify.

The most common types of apps built with Ruby:

MVPs

Ruby is often chosen for the cost-effective and fast development of MVPs.

This language is also often used for prototyping, introducing updates and testing different versions of products before building fully functional apps.

API Integrations

Get tools for building an API on the backend which can communicate with the client-side – it’s a great solution as it makes development far quicker and more cost-effective. It delivers source code that is clear, concise, and easy to maintain.

Social Networking Apps

Because of Ruby’s ability to support traffic-heavy apps, it is perfect for social networking apps like Twitter. It’s also used for apartment sharing and booking apps - Airbnb and Couchsurfing because it swiftly manage a big amount of daily transactions and property bookings.

Ecommerce platforms

Ruby is a programming language of choice for many eCommerce platforms like Spree or Shopify which gives a home to over 800k online stores.

The reason why it is perfect for the job is the speed of development, flexibility and cost-effectiveness of Ruby, which allows for managing a lot of transactions at once.

It also gives developers access to a wide ecosystem of gems - right now there’s over 150 thousand of them.

Platforms that support complex databases

Some of the best examples of such platforms are GitHub -  the biggest Git repository hosting platform for developers and Bloomberg - a multi-platform financial news and analytics hub.

Because of its speed, efficiency and flexibility, Ruby is also used for:

• automation, backup,
• DevOps tools,
• API Clients,
• report generators,
• servers,
• static website generators
• command-line media players.

Ruby on Rails is mature and offers stability that directly translates into successful, hassle-free maintenance for years. Good developers will know how to tap the magic of Rails and use the saved time to focus on business features and application logic.

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