Blogs
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly — Story of a Rails 5 Upgrade
When Rails 5 was finally released, I was right in the middle of my first internship with AdWyze. Since this was a breaking release, Ankur Gupta thought it was a good idea for us to board the upgrade train. It is generally a good idea to not get st...
Rails 5.1: Loving JavaScript, System Tests, Encrypted Secrets
In celebration of the 12th RailsConf in Phoenix, Arizona this week, we’re proud to announce that Rails 5.1 is ready in its final form! We’ve spent over 4,100 commits since Rails 5.0 making everything EASIER, SIMPLER, and, uhhh, FUNNER? (That’s a R...
Ruby, NodeJS and Go: advantages and disadvantages for backend development
For single-page applications there is a pretty clear-cut distinction between frontend and backend. The presentation and interaction aspects are handled entirely by the frontend, while the backend takes care of the logic: reading the data passed to...
Why Should You Consider Ruby on Rails Programming and Its Framework?
Ruby, an Object Oriented scripting language for web-development, gets extension from a software library called Rails. As a collective framework for web development, Ruby on Rails or simply Rails has become very popular among developers in recent y...
What are Advantages Ruby on Rails Over PHP for Web Development?
In the world of technology and programming frameworks, options for choosing a development platform are galore. Two of the names which are usually pitted against each other are Rails and PHP – both being very famous. But before getting into compari...
Ruby on Rails on Azure App Service (Web Sites) with Linux (and Ubuntu on Windows 10)
Running Ruby on Rails on Windows has historically sucked. Most of the Ruby/Rails folks are Mac and Linux users and haven't focused on getting Rails to be usable for daily development on Windows. There have been some heroic efforts by a number of v...