Why We Use Ruby on Rails to Build GitLab

05/01/2019
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When our Co-founder and Engineering Fellow Dmitriy Zaporozhets decided to build GitLab, he chose to do it with Ruby on Rails, despite working primarily in PHP at the time. GitHub, a source of inspiration for GitLab, was also based on Rails, making it a logical pick considering his interest in the framework. GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij thinks his co-founder made a good choice:"It's worked out really well because the Ruby on Rails ecosystem allows you to shape a lot of functionality at a high quality," he explained. "If you look at GitLab, it has an enormous amount of functionality. Software development is very complex and to help with that, we need a lot of functionality and Ruby on Rails is a way to do it. Because there's all these best practices that are on your happy path, it's also a way to keep the code consistent when you ship something like GitLab. You're kind of guided into doing the right thing.".
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