Ruby on Rails Alternatives

Ruby on Rails is described as 'Open source full-stack framework using Ruby, offering MVC architecture, Active Record ORM, scaffolding, secure defaults, RESTful design, and integrated testing' and is a popular Web Framework in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Ruby on Rails for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best Ruby on Rails alternative is Django, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Ruby on Rails are Laravel, Symfony, ASP.NET and Meteor.

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    Port of Ruby on Rails development framework and designed to work for PHP4 and PHP5.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. Laska is a server-side microframework for Dart, which aims to be a fast, simple and lightweight.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  3. CodeBehind library is a modern backend framework. This library is a programming model based on the MVC structure, which provides the possibility of creating dynamic aspx files in .NET Core and has high serverside independence.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4.  3 likes

    Seagull is an object oriented framework written in PHP that focuses on best practices, clean code and reusable components.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  5. Bitweaver icon
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    Bitweaver is a free and open source web application framework and content management system. Its speed and power are ideal for large-scale community websites and corporate applications, but it is simple enough for non-technical small site users to set up and administrate.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
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  6. Hix icon
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    Hix on Rails injects the setup wizard into the usual new programming project creation flow.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  7. You can reduce your software MVP cost by 60% when you use Pellerex, a ready-to-use and source-included software ecosystem of Identity and Payment functions as well as three scaffolds across Mobile, Web, and API. It is built using Azure, Asp.NET 5.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • ASP.NET
    • Laravel
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  8. Luvit icon
     2 likes

    Asynchronous I/O framework for Lua.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • Raspberry Pi
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  9. Gin icon
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    Gin is a high-performance HTTP web framework written in Go. It provides a Martini-like API but with significantly better performance—up to 40 times faster—thanks to httprouter. Gin is designed for building REST APIs, web applications, and microservices.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Go (Programming Language)
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  10. Slim Framework is an open-source PHP micro-framework for building web applications and HTTP APIs. It provides routing for HTTP methods and URI patterns, middleware for processing requests and responses, PSR-7 HTTP message support, and compatibility with PSR-11...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • PHP
    • Self-Hosted
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  11. Serverpod icon
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    Open-source server framework for Dart and Flutter featuring database integration, automatic API generation, integrated ORM, type safety, authentication, and runtime inspection, enabling seamless app and web server creation for varied hosting environments.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  12.  6 likes

    Small and carefully designed PHP 5.2+ HMVC framework.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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