Why Ruby on Rails?

We seem to get this question a lot from the more tech savvy customers... Why are you using Ruby on Rails?

It's a good question, no doubt about that.  We could have just as easily used something like PHP or ASP, but what's cool and innovative about that?  Sure they are well known languages, but they lack the elegance, and most importantly, the development speed.  Not to mention the awesome integration with a little buzzword we like to throw around, AJAX.

Using Ruby on Rails we can develop simple functions that query the database (which is all most web apps actually do) in hours instead of days.  Rails also comes complete with "gems", this is a plugin technology that is implemented into the core of rails.  There are gems for all sorts of things including: credit card processing, wysiwyg editors, pdf generation.

Finally, RoR is open source.  The first thing that comes to mind when people here "open source" is FREE.  That is true, but it also allows us to extend the programming language to fit your needs.  We are not waiting for Microsoft to patch ASP so we can continue development or fix a problem.

Overall we have been very happy with RoR as a development platform and think you will enjoy the benefits of a much more versatile product.