Ruby on Rails Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to Ruby on Rails for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best Windows alternative is Django, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Ruby on Rails and many of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Ruby on Rails are Laravel, Symfony, ASP.NET and Meteor.

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  1. Django icon
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    Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. Built by experienced developers, it takes care of much of the hassle of Web development, so you can focus on writing your app without needing to reinvent the wheel.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Python
    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. Laravel icon
     89 likes

    Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  3. ASP.NET icon
     33 likes

    Asp.net is an open source server-side Web application framework designed for Web development to produce dynamic Web pages, web sites, apps and services with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. You can also create Web APIs, mobile sites, use real-time technologies like Web Sockets and more!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Meteor icon
     49 likes

    Meteor is a set of new technologies for building top-quality web apps in a fraction of the time. It is built around Smart Packages: little bundles of code that can run on a client, inside a cloud service, or both, and that can manage their lifetime inside the modern distributed...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Jmix icon
     67 likes

    Jmix provides powerful full stack architecture along with Rapid Application Development tools for easy start and fast development of modern business web applications.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Zend Framework icon
     26 likes

    Extending the art & spirit of PHP, Zend Framework is based on simplicity, object-oriented best practices, corporate friendly licensing, and a rigorously tested agile codebase. Zend Framework is focused on building more secure, reliable, and modern Web 2.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  7. Grails icon
     9 likes

    Grails is a high-productivity web framework based on the Groovy language that embraces the coding by convention paradigm, but is designed specifically for the Java platform.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. ASP.NET MVC icon
     9 likes

    The ASP.NET MVC is a framework for building scalable, standards-based web applications using the model-view-controller (MVC) pattern and the power of ASP.NET and the .NET Framework .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Play! icon
     15 likes

    Play is a web application framework, written in Scala and Java, which follows the model–view–controller (MVC) architectural pattern.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. web2py icon
     21 likes

    Web2py is an open source web application framework. Web2py is written in the Python language and is programmable in Python. Since web2py was originally designed as a teaching tool with emphasis on ease of use and deployment, it does not have any project-level configuration...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
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