After the recent turmoil I thought it may be worth pointing out a few alternatives to the Rails framework. So here’s 4 Ruby-based web framework alternatives for starters:
- Ramaze – Has no known bugs and claims excellent stability. Thems fighting words!
- Camping – A ‘micro-framework’, this is incredibly lightweight offering limited features but great efficiency and speed.
- Merb – One of the frameworks recommended by Zed this started as Mongrel + ERB, hence the name. Its grown to be a very clean and efficient Ruby framework.
- Hobo – Not a framework in its own right as its built on top of Rails but it offers a raft of extra functionality to ease and speed up development of your projects.
You may also be interested in the following web frameworks in other languages:
- Cake (PHP) – One of PHP’s most popular Rails alternatives. More verbose than Rails but providing much of the same functionality.
- Symfony (PHP) – This is becoming increasingly popular with employers looking for experienced PHP developers.
- Django (Python) – Hugely popular Python framework and although not the first its overtaken veteran frameworks like Turbogears to be the most popular Python in the box.
- Turbogears (Python) – An older Python solution which is actually a jumble of technologies stuck together.
- Sails (Java) – One of the many Java frameworks with a lot of promise.
- Seaside (Smalltalk) - The onlySmalltalk based framework I know of. I’d really like to have a gander at this at a later date as one of Ruby’s inspirations was Smalltalk so it’d be interesting to see how the forefathers go about framework creation.
If you’re a fan of statistics, reviews and comparisons then maybe you’d like some of these – about as many web framework reviews as you can possibly want!
- PHP Framework Benchmarks – Just a run of Symfony, CakePHP and CodeIgniter.
- Rails vs. CakePHP Comparison
Thanks for this post. I am new at python and this will help a lot.