Ruby is an amazing object oriented programming language, which has been serving people for more than twenty five years and become favorite for number of web developers all around the world. Ruby is dynamic programming language which includes several features and allows developers easy and flawless web development. Ruby supports multiple programming paradigms, including functional, object-oriented, and imperative. It also has a dynamic type system and automatic memory management.
Ruby’s Frameworks list isn’t huge but effective one, these frameworks not only allow developers accelerated development but also help them to build innovative web applications by putting little bit of efforts in it.
For this roundup we have compiled a list of 12 Best Ruby Frameworks which will definitely prove you useful and worth working. So, here is the list of Ruby Frameworks which we feel dominating the year 2015.
1. Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. This framework enables users to write code by favoring convention over configuration.
2. Lotus
Lotus is Open Source Software, which strives for simplicity, fewer DSLs, minimal conventions, more objects, zero monkey-patching and the separation of concerns between MVC layers. Lotus is made of standalone frameworks (controllers, views, etc.) and each one is shipped as an independent gem to emphasize the separation of concerns.
3. Ramaze
Ramaze is a very simple and straight-forward web-framework. Ramaze can run on MRI, 1.9, Rubinus and JRuby. Odds are that if your Ruby installation works in a similar way such as MRI and 1.9 it will be able to run Ramaze.
4. Sinatara
Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort. Sinatra allows you to structure your application to fit the problem you’re trying to solve instead of the other way around. It will only perform a set of functions that its meant to perform, each class does what it has to do, and gives the control back to you.
6. Celluloid
Celluloid is a concurrent object oriented programming framework for Ruby. With Celluloid, you can build systems out of concurrent objects just as easily as you build sequential programs out of regular objects. Recommended for any developer, including novices, Celluloid should help ease your worries about building multithreaded Ruby programs.
7. Cuba
Cuba is a microframework for web development originally inspired by Rum, a tiny but powerful mapper for Rack applications. It’s quite elegant, and has support for clean code that can be used to run tests.
8. Padrino Framework
Padrino is a ruby framework built upon the Sinatra web library. Sinatra is a DSL for creating simple web applications in Ruby. Padrino was created to make it fun and easy to code more advanced web applications while still adhering to the spirit that makes Sinatra great!
9. NYNY
NYNY is unassuming, it has all the core stuff to get running, but nothing else. Your app is the framework. However, it’s trivial to extend NYNY via its extension interface. Each NYNY app is a Rack middleware, so it can be used inside of Sinatra, Rails, or any other Rack-based app.
10. Grape
Grape is a REST-like API micro-framework for Ruby. It’s designed to run on Rack or complement existing web application frameworks such as Rails and Sinatra by providing a simple DSL to easily develop RESTful APIs.
11. Nancy
Nancy is incredibly fast, being based Cuba and Sinatra. It has got the same route functionality that Sinatra has.
12. Camping
Camping is a MVC web framework which is only 4kb in size, and its built so it stays around the same range.
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