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Overview
What Ruby on Rails does
Ruby on Rails is an open source full-stack web framework licensed under MIT, built around convention over configuration.
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Ruby on Rails.
- Licensed under the MIT License per rubyonrails.org; as open source software it has no paid tier or vendor price to compare
- The framework is Ruby-only by design, per rubyonrails.org's own description of its convention over configuration approach, requiring the Ruby runtime rather than supporting alternate languages
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What people choose instead of Ruby on Rails
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