Ruby on Rails
Ruby web application framework with an ORM, routing, ERB views, background jobs and built-in deployment tooling.
Ruby on Rails is a Ruby framework for web applications, bundling an ORM, routing, ERB views and background jobs. A new application uses SQLite by default and can also run on MySQL, MariaDB or PostgreSQL. Hotwire is the default front-end framework named on the homepage, and internationalization comes from the bundled Ruby i18n gem. Each new application includes a generated Dockerfile that uses Thruster to serve assets, and the bundled Kamal tool deploys the app as Docker containers to a server the user runs. The Rails Foundation, a US non-profit founded in 2022, supports the ecosystem. David Heinemeier Hansson created Rails.
Identity
Rendering and deploy
- Runs as
- Always on3
- Rendering
- On a server3
- Install with
- gem install rails, rails new10
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-18: name, Written in, License, License model, GitHub stars
github.com/rails/rails - 2026-10-18: links
rubygems.org/api/v1/gems/rails.json - 2026-10-18: links, Categories, Runtime, Minimum runtime, Templating, Rendering, Runs as
guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html - 2026-10-18: Maintained by
rubyonrails.org/community - 2026-10-18: wikidata
www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190478 - 2026-10-18: Minimum runtime
rubygems.org/api/v1/versions/rails.json - 2026-10-18: Content storage, Databases
guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_basics.html - 2026-10-18: Databases
guides.rubyonrails.org/configuring.html - 2026-10-18: Multilingual
guides.rubyonrails.org/i18n.html - 2026-10-18: Install with
guides.rubyonrails.org/install_ruby_on_rails.html - 2026-10-18: Current major version, Last release
github.com/rails/rails/releases - 2026-10-18: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/rails/rails/contributors?anon=true - 2026-10-25: Sites using it (HTTP Archive)
cdn.httparchive.org/v1/technologies