Ruby Article

Introduction

Ruby is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language, it was designed and developed in the mid-1990s by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in Japan.

Ruby is dynamically typed and garbage-collected. It supports multiple programming paradigms including procedural, object-oriented and functional programming.

Features

Ruby has offers many different features such as:

Open-source and is freely available on the Web, but it is subject to a license.
General purpose and interpreted programming language
Server-side scripting
Can be used as an OO Language
Can be used embedded into Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Clean and easy syntax, similar to Perl and C++
Easily scalable and maintainable
Support on many different platforms
Built-in functions

Pros/Cons

Ruby has its pros and cons: (includes Ruby-on-Rails a web framework)

Pros	Cons
Tooling - RoR (Ruby on Rails) provides fantastic tooling that helps you to deliver more features in less time. It provides a standard structure for web apps, where all the common patterns are taken care of for you.	Boot Speed - The main frustration we hear from developers working in RoR is the boot speed of the RoR framework. Depending on the number of gem dependencies and files, it can take a significant amount of time to start, which can hinder developer performance. In recent versions of RoR this has been somewhat combatted by the introduction of Spring, but we feel this could still be faster.
Libraries - RoR uses Gems as its library and package manager. They are publically available online.	ActiveRecord - AR is used heavily within the RoR world and is hard dependency for many of the RubyGems. Although we think it's a great design pattern, the biggest drawback we see is that your domain becomes tightly coupled to your persistence mechanism. This is far from ideal and can lead to bad architecture decisions. There are many ways to work around this.
Code Quality - The quality of third party Ruby code is usually higher than PHP and NodeJS code.	Runtime Speed - The most cited argument against RoR is that it's "slow". NodeJs and GoLand are faster, yes, but it doesnt affect the performance in a web application in most cases.
Large Community - Ruby and RoR offer a large and established user base with a big community online. It is a popular language.	Documentation - It can be hard to find good documentation. Particularly for the less popular gems and for libraries which make heavy use of mixins (which is most of RoR). You'll often end up finding the test suite acts as documentation and you'll rely on this to understand behaviour. This isn't itself a bad then, as the test suite should be the most up-to-date representation of the system, however, it can still be frustrating having to drive into code, when sometimes written documentation would have been much quicker.
Productivity - Ruby is an eloquent and succint language, which then combined with the plethora of third party libraries, enables you to developmentment features incredibly fast. it is to be considered as the most productive programming language about.	Multithreading - RoR supports multithreading, though some of the IO libraries do not, as they keep hold of the GIL (Global Interpreter Lock). This means if you're not careful, requests will get queued up behind the active request and can introduce performance issues. In practice this isn't too much of a problem as, if you use a library that relies on GLI, you can switch to multiprocess setup. The knock-on effect of this is your application ends up consuming more compute resources than necessary, which can increases your infrastructure costs.

Extra Programs

Programs / Languages / Frameworks related to Ruby

Web Frameworks - Ruby on Rails, ReactJS, NodeJS, VueJS, Angular
Package Managers - npm, Gems, etc
Web Design and Architecture
Front End Web Techologies - HTML, CSS, JS

Sources

Summary

In conclusion:

Ruby is a programming language that is very useful as its multi-paradigm. It's associated web framework, Ruby on Rails is useful in developing web applications. As noted in the pros and cons, Ruby has a big community as well being easy to learn. Ruby could possibly be a good alternative for web development.