Usually when I start dealing with something new I want to see what others have done in the same sphere. That’s why I think one list of successful Rails Web Applications will be helpful for new-comers and not only to them. In fact you will see that great applications have been lunched in the recent days.

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• Basecamp - Project management and collaboration
  

   

• Campfire - Real-time group chat
  

   

• Backpack - Information organizer and calendar
  

   

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Recently, lots of words have been written about Ruby on Rails and lots of programmers had adopted or thought about adopting it. As a result, this young programming language has reached the top 10 of most popular programming languages. On the picture below you can see that ruby is the language with most gain of popularity. This statistics has been done by “TIOBE Software BV”. It represents ratings that are based on the world-wide availability of skilled engineers, courses and third party vendors. Moreover Yahoo!, MSN, and of course Google are used to calculate the ratings.

Well, I think that this index is a good enough confirmation that Ruby is no more a “back-stage player”. Moreover, in my view, if someone has a touch with the comfort and easiness of web developing with the help of Ruby on Rails - he will seriously think about adopting it as a primary web dev tool/lang. I have programming skills and experience with Perl, Java, PHP, however neither of them has given me the comfort of rails. My expectations are that in one or two years ruby will be a first-stop about developing moderate web applications. It won’t shift Java or PHP because they have long and hard roots in the market, however the young and new-comming developers will choose the clarity and easiness of Ruby on Rails.

Many people read articles about Ruby but no one really cares to explain why really Ruby is so great. There are a couple of articles around the web providing a clue but no one really focus on production and actual Ruby application develop and deploy process. So this article will summarize all the information we tried to gather around the web and put it into one simple yet focused and pragmatic explanation of this question without much of any unnecessary details and code overview but pointing/naming the topic you might want to read in details.

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Ruby is a reflective, dynamic, object-oriented programming language. It combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like object-oriented features, and also shares some features with Python, Lisp, Dylan and CLU. Ruby is a single-pass interpreted language. Its main implementation is free software.
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