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Ruby

Posted by Temo Vargas
Temo Vargas
16,319 Points

What can i make using Ruby and Ruby on Rails??

what can i build with ruby beside websites??

1 Answer

Fares Basmadji
Fares Basmadji
13,554 Points

You can build a lot and there's no one way to answer this. Also depends on your definition of "websites". Simply put Ruby lets you build the back-end side of your web app.. for example, your built a beautiful html/css/js website .. but unless it's designed to be a static website (think resume) and not a dynamic one (one that needs interactions; think facebook, twitter, bbc news etc..). These dynamic websites need to talk to a database through a server side software built with one of the back end languages, be it Ruby, PHP and Python among others.

When it comes to Ruby in particular, there is a framework called Rails, people often refer to it as Ruby on Rails, and Rails my friend is the framework that helps you build specifically "web apps".

I'm also new to this so I hope I'm not lying to you and this accurate. If not, I apologise and await someone to correct me!

As a small example, Twitter was originally built with Ruby! True Story! I think Dribbble was built with Rails! :)

I found this link for you : http://skillcrush.com/2015/02/02/37-rails-sites/