Skylight Integrations

You may be wondering why Ruby is so popular. It is a beautiful and artistic language, according to its fans. They also say it's practical and useful. Ruby has attracted devoted coders around the world since its 1995 release. Ruby was widely accepted in 2006. Active user groups were formed in major cities around the globe and Ruby-related conferences were full to capacity. Ruby-Talk, the main mailing list for discussion about the Ruby language, saw an average of 200 messages per daily in 2006. As the community has grown, the number of messages per day on Ruby-Talk has fallen. Ruby ranks among the top 10 in most indices that measure popularity and growth of programming languages around the world (such as TIOBE index). The popularity of Ruby on Rails, especially the Ruby on Rails web framework, is responsible for a large part of this growth.

Rails has helped many companies reach millions of users and billions of market valuations over the past 20 years. Rails has been contributed by over six thousand people. Many more have helped the community with documentation, evangelism and bug reports. Rendering HTML templates, updating databases and sending and receiving email, maintaining live pages via WebSockets. Enqueue jobs for asynchronous work, storing uploads on the cloud, and providing solid security protections against common attacks. Databases become alive with rich objects that contain business logic. It allows you to model relationships between tables, provide callbacks when saved, protect sensitive data, and beautifully express SQL queries. The controllers expose the domain model to web, process incoming parameters and set caching headers. They also render templates, responding with HTML or JSON.