The developers frequently explore affordable options to develop and maintain websites. At the same time, the ongoing recessional phase of the economy has compelled many developers to curtail the development time, while providing enhanced and improved user experience. Since its public release in 2006, many developers are using Ruby on Rails (popularly referred as Rails) to develop robust websites for clients belonging to different industries and regions.

The popular scripting language was developed in 1993, and was inspired by several scripting languages like Python, Perl, Smalltalk, Ada, Lisp and Eiffel. But Rails is more object-oriented than Python and more powerful than Perl. The framework of Rails looks a bit similar to the PHP framework. But the well designed and unambiguous code structure makes writing codes and developing websites more enjoyable and fun.

Also, developers constantly work on improving the cross-platform open source framework to incorporate more efficient and effective features. Many developers also prefer Rails an advanced MVC framework. The entire application is divided into three layers, such as, the model, the view and the controller. The framework also consists of a wide variety of independent libraries. The combination of several layers and separate libraries makes it more convenient and easier for developers to write robust web applications within a short span of time.


Why Ruby on Rails Scores Over Other Frameworks?
Using Rails to build websites may not be a low cost or affordable. But the initial investment enables you to avail certain benefits like reduced launch time, easy to incorporate changes, and support of a robust community.


Reduced Launch Time: The recessional phase of the global manager has made it essential for software development companies to launch robust web apps within a very short timeframe. In comparison to other frameworks, you can use Rails to develop and launch the website within a very shorter period of time. As you can use the existing codes and plugins, it will be easier for reduce the time required to write comprehensive codes.


Easy to Incorporate Changes: With most companies launching web application at regular intervals, you have to constantly add new and advanced features to your website. Once you develop and launch the website using Rails, it will be easier for you to incorporate the required changes and add new features. These options will help you in improving user experience without putting much time and effort.


Enhanced Quality and Scalability: The reduced app development time and easy to incorporate changes will save you money on launching and maintain websites. While you can add new features to enhance the website quality, the option will further help you in achieving greater scalability and use experience. You may have to invest some funds to develop a large website using rails, but the website will get you high returns in the long run.


What Sites can You Develop Using Ruby on Rails?
You can consider using Rails to develop a wide variety of websites. Each web application will avail several benefits from Rails’ user-friendly and efficient features.


Ecommerce Portals: Many owners find it a daunting task to maintain and update their ecommerce websites on a regular basis. As Rails enable you to develop and maintain websites within a short time span, you can easily run a robust website using its modular approach and easy-to-use features. These features will also allow you to design the website by incorporating the features offered by expensive and high-end website ecommerce suites.


Social Networks: If you are planning to build a membership website or social network, it is important to concentrate on achieving high scalability and quality. Some of the features offered by Rails make it easier for you to build and maintain such website. Rails offer you a wide range of plugins to improve the user experience by overcoming all types of social networking challenges.


Content Management System: Rails also offers you the best solution to run a comprehensive online content management system. The content management website will be accessed by a large number of users, and deliver content in text, audio, video or multimedia formats. The easy-to-use features of the Rails will enable users to navigate the website in a quicker and smart way. At the same time, the features will make it easier for you to upload and manage content on a regular basis.

The huge popularity of Ruby on Rails can be determined based on some of the large websites designed using this technology. Some organizations like HP, NASA and Intel use the technology internally, whereas Rails is also used externally by popular brands like MTV, Twitter and YellowPages. This is what makes Ruby on Rails development so popular.


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The constant changes in the lifestyle and choices of modern users have made web app development a daunting challenge. Along with beating the apps launched by your competitors, you also have to target the large number of users who access the web on their mobile devices. That is why; many developers are making enterprise-class apps using the unified Web development model provided by ASP.NET.

If you have prior experience in developing website using Active Server Pages (ASP), you can easily migrate to ASP.NET, as the syntaxes are compatible with each other. But ASP.NET offers a number of additional advantages including improved performance, enhanced reliability, easy deployment and scalability.

Also, Microsoft has designed ASP.NET to work seamlessly with the “What You See is What You Get” (WYSIWYG) HTML editors, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, and other programming tools. So you can easily write the codes, and compile the application in the .NET-based environment. At the same time, you have option to choose from several .NET compatible languages including C#, Visual Basic.NET, and Jscript. The web application can further avail some of the significant benefits of .NET framework.


Why Develop Web Apps with ASP .NET development services?

Easy Deployment: You can use ASP.NET to deploy an entire web app simply by copying it to server. The configure settings stored within the app as an XML file also make it easier for you to make the required changes. Further, you can easily update the complied components without restarting the web server. The changes will be automatically detected by ASP.NET, and it will start using the updated coding. ASP.NET also allows developers to easily migrate from classic ASP application. As both apps can run side by side, you can still use most of your existing components.

Increased Reliability: Often the performance of a web app is impacted by memory leaks, server crash and deadlocks. Microsoft has designed ASP.NET with specific features to easily identify and recover from several types of errors. So your web app will be available to the users without any interruptions. For instance, in case of memory leakage, ASP.NET will automatically start and run a copy of the worker process. All the pending requests will be processed successfully without any delay or disturbance.

Improved Performance: In comparison to traditional web development techniques, ASP.NET is much faster and more efficient. As ASP.NET can automatically detect the changes and updates, the files are compiled dynamically. Also, the stores compiled results can be reused to meet the subsequent use requests. This feature makes it easier for developers to keep their web app up to date, while saving the results in memory.

Advanced Development Models: Many develop find it challenging to develop a web app to target different types of users. ASP.NET uses XML web services to enable you apps to communicate and share data over the web. So a user can access the web app, regardless of the programming language and operating system. At the same time, you can use the ASP.NET mobile control to target the users accessing internet on their mobile and handheld devices. Once you write the code, the mobile controls will automatically generate customized pages to suit the user’s device and operating system.


Innovative Web Apps You can Design Using ASP.NET

Translator Service: You can use the HttpClient class to call the Microsoft Translator service. The API needs an OAuth token that is obtained by the web app by sending a request to the Azure token serve. Based on individual requests, the results from the token server will be fed into the translation service. If you have got the application key from Azure Marketplace, the HttpClient class can be used to develop an online translator app.

Accessing Google Maps as a Local File: Many users want to gather information and access files without incurring any additional data charges. You can easily download the Google maps to your local drives, and save it as a local file. The file downloaded from the web will open on your default image viewers without requiring any internet connectivity.

Making a Twitter Client: You can develop a simple twitter client by using the HttpClient class. The OAuth authentication information can be inserted into the outgoing HttpRequestMessage through the HttpMessageHandler. The web app will use JSON.NET to read the results received from Twitter. However, you have to use the application key obtained from Twitter, along with providing relevant information to the OAuthMessageHandler sample class.

Microsoft is constantly upgrading ASP.NET to make it more popular among the web application developers. Some of the advanced features offered by ASP.NET also make it easier for developers to make vibrant web apps to target all types of users.


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