The Ruby on Rails Resurgence - DevOps.com

Ruby combines functional and imperative programming to create an easy-to-use, powerful language where everything is an object. Introduced in 1995, the open source programming language became popular in the 2000s during the dot-com era, when developers at startups and established companies were under pressure to rapidly launch new web applications.Ruby on Rails, released in 2004, is a framework for Ruby that provides foundational structures for building and deploying web applications. Ruby on Rails enabled even faster development because it provided most of the nuts and bolts. Thanks to Rails, Ruby’s popularity continued to soar through the early 2010s. Among the many applications built with Ruby on Rails are Airbnb, Basecamp, Github, Hulu and Shopify.