Development of Ruby on Rails

To monitor the quality of the code, the language ecosystem has tools that allow you to cover all areas of coding with tests, from unit testing to integration testing. The following tools can be used with Ruby on Rails:

• mini test,
• rspec,
• capybara,
• cucumber.

Every month and every year, new updates and fixes are released for Ruby and the Rails framework. The sixth version of Ruby on Rails is now available, which includes:

• the possibility of parallel testing;
• support for working with multiple databases;
• automation of work with letters;
• tools for interacting with front-end technologies;
• built-in system for organizing the storage of user files.

Most of the changes and improvements are related to the requirements that developers place on the language when solving certain problems.

For example, there are many community-created tools for storing user data. Ruby developers, realizing that such tools are in demand, have implemented the necessary features at the language level.

The technology is also developed by the community. According to GitHub statistics, Rails has the most contributors actively involved in improving the project among the frameworks of other languages.

Relevance of Ruby on Rails

Database

When working with a database, such as Postgresql, Active Record (the ORM used by Ruby on Rails) allows you to abstract from the current database at higher levels. This makes it possible to write almost the same code for any supported database.

The framework works with all popular SQL databases, so you can focus on the implementation of business tasks, rather than writing a huge number of low-level SQL commands.

Templates

Ruby on Rails also supports web development templating engines that speed up front-end templating. Writing HTML code on your own without the help of automated generators is difficult, time-consuming and expensive, so the framework works with many templating engines:

• erb,
• haml,
• Slim,
• liquid.

Deploy and testing

The more business logic in the application, the more difficult it is to update it to the current version. Ruby has tools that make it possible to update with one command, describing all the stages of deployment in Ruby. The automation system will do the rest.