The Ruby on Rails revolution

PUNE, INDIA: With the plethora of languages on offer to programmers to build innovative software solutions, a relative new kid on the block, has quietly carved out an impressive niche for itself. The past decade has seen the popularity; adoption and impact of Ruby on Rails reach meteoric levels. The army of more than 3.5 million Ruby on Rails engineers and programmers worldwide bears testament to its credentials as an effective option for building web based applications and solutions.

''By all accounts, and by the number of successful websites built using Ruby on Rails, its adoption is only set to go up,'' says  Gautam Rege, co-founder and MD, Josh Software Pvt. Ltd. "It is heartening to see big acceptance from the Indian programming community who have hitherto been lackadaisical in jumping onto the open source bandwagon. Combine the fact that this is an open source alternative with innate and strong Indian programming skills and businesses have a viable, cost effective solution when building web based applications.''

The revolution will only get stronger in the coming years as advantages like scalability and flexibility of these systems continue to shine through. The future seems as red as a ruby, says Rege.

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