Agile Development with Ruby on Rails

The fast pace of life, constantly changing business environment and rapidly evolving technologies make a software development company and a development team adopt more flexible and collaborative approach to the process of software and web application development. This agile environment encourages rapid application development and enables developers to carry out software and web solutions in a shorter time frame.

Ruby on Rails is a web application framework, which ensures agile web development process. Web developers, who program on Ruby, make use of Ruby on Rails framework to build top-flight web solutions, while remaining responsive to constant changes.

How does Ruby on Rails enable agile development?

• Ruby on Rails supports MVC architecture, which allows web professionals to separate business logic, user presentation and control features and facilitate the process of web development.
• Ruby on Rails enables scaffolding feature, which can automatically build basic models and views, therefore, speeding up the initial stage of agile web development process.
• Ruby on Rails framework implements the principle “convention over configuration”, which allows web developers to define unconventional elements and to write only them, thus replacing XML configuration and accelerating web app development.
• Ruby on Rails provides a possibility to build web applications, employing less code lines. This possibility is achieved by the Ruby on Rails ability to cope with basic details automatically. Therefore, Ruby on Rails framework creates more agile conditions for web developers to rapidly write web applications.
• Ruby on Rails allows web developers to create extensions in order to customize the development process and make it more convenient and agile.
• Ruby on Rails comprises a number of modules such as Action Pack, Active Model, Active Record, Active Resource, Active Support and Action Mailer, which provide web professionals with a myriad of programming features that simplify the development of web applications and encourage agile development.
• Ruby on Rails supports JavaScript libraries such as jQuery and Prototype.
• Ruby on Rails provides web specialists with an array of different APIs that ensure flexible development.
• Ruby on Rails enables web developers to handle libraries, frameworks and other components for a specific web app with the help of Bundler.

A great number of software development companies strive to make the process of web application development less time consuming and more flexible, hence, such companies and its web specialists take advantage of Ruby on Rails technology, which allows them to employ the principles of agile development.