Ruby on Rails Alternatives

Ruby on Rails is described as 'Open source full-stack framework using Ruby, offering MVC architecture, Active Record ORM, scaffolding, secure defaults, RESTful design, and integrated testing' and is a popular Web Framework in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Ruby on Rails for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best Ruby on Rails alternative is Django, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Ruby on Rails are Laravel, Symfony, ASP.NET and Meteor.

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  1. CakePHP  icon
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    CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications. Using commonly known design patterns like MVC and ORM within the convention over configuration paradigm, CakePHP reduces development...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
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    Play Framework is an open-source web application framework which follows the model–view–controller architectural pattern. It is written in Scala and usable from other programming languages that are compiled to JVM Bytecode, e.g. Java.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Yii Framework icon
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    Yii is a high-performance component-based PHP framework best for Web 2.0 development.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
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    Build rich, interactive web applications quickly, with less code and fewer moving parts. Join our growing community of developers using Phoenix to craft APIs, HTML5 apps and more, for fun or at scale.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
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    Apache Struts is an open-source web application framework for developing Java EE web applications. It uses and extends the Java Servlet API to encourage developers to adopt a model-view-controller (MVC) architecture.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
     
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    Nette Framework is a popular tool for PHP web development. It is designed to be the most usable as possible and is definitely one of the safest one. It speaks your language and helps you to easily build better websites.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Pylons Framework is an open source Web application framework written in Python. It makes extensive use of the Web Server Gateway Interface standard to promote reusability and to separate functionality into distinct modules.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  8. Buffalo icon
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    Put the fun back in writing Go web applications! A Ruby on Rails inspired, idiomatic, web framework written in Go.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. IHP icon
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    It is a new batteries-included web framework optimized for longterm productivity and programmer happiness.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • IHP is the most popular SaaS alternative to Ruby on Rails.

    • IHP is Free and Open SourceRuby on Rails is also Free and Open Source
  10. Pyramid icon
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    Pyramid is an open source web framework written in Python and is based on WSGI. It is a minimalistic web framework inspired by Zope, Pylons and Django.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • Online
    • Python
     
  11. Portofino icon
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    Portofino is a free and open source web framework that helps developers create outstanding enterprise applications by addressing three specific needs: productivity, features and architecture.

    24 Portofino alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. Sinatra icon
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    Sinatra is a free and open source software web application library and domain-specific language written in Ruby. It is an alternative to other Ruby web application frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, Merb, Nitro, Camping, and Rango. It is dependent on the Rack web server interface.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Ruby
     
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    Sinatra in no way tries to do all the things that RAils does. It's a microframework, not a MVC powerhouse like rails

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    • Sinatra is Free and Open SourceRuby on Rails is also Free and Open Source
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