Ruby on Rails Alternatives

Apps similar to Ruby on Rails include Django, which is free and open source. Other options are Laravel, Symfony, ASP.NET and Meteor. Web Frameworks like Ruby on Rails are a crowded field, with more than 25 alternatives for Linux, Mac, Windows, the web and self-hosting.

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  1. web2py icon
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    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 files

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
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  2. 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.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. 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 (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Online
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  4. Yii Framework icon
     33 likes

    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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  5. 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
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. 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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  7. 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
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  8. Buffalo icon
     1 like

    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 (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  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 (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  10. Flet icon
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    Flet enables developers to easily build realtime web, mobile and desktop apps in Python. No frontend experience required.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
    • Flutter
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  11. Pyramid icon
     9 likes

    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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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Python
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  12. Portofino icon
     23 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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