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Ruby on Rails

Ruby framework built on convention over configuration.

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Complete Ruby web framework with ORM, routes, jobs and generators, which popularized the idea of convention over configuration.

When to use

To build complete web products quickly, with a mature ecosystem.

When to avoid

For latency-critical services or teams without Ruby experience.

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