Ruby on Rails

#7 in Backend Frameworks & Platforms

Full-stack web framework for Ruby.

What is Ruby on Rails?

Full-stack web framework for Ruby. Based on 138 Reddit mentions across 10 subreddits, Ruby on Rails has a 60% positive sentiment score in the Backend Frameworks & Platforms space. Reddit users most frequently discuss Ruby on Rails in r/rails.

40 Mentions (30 days)

41 Mentions (90 days)

138 Total Mentions

-20% 30-Day Trend

Sentiment Breakdown

Positive

60%

Neutral

Negative

35%

Top Subreddits

r/rails 57 mentions
r/ruby 32 mentions
r/rubyonrails 9 mentions
r/jobhuntify 5 mentions
r/hypeurls 4 mentions
r/patient_hackernews 2 mentions
r/hackernews 2 mentions
r/programming 2 mentions
r/webdev 2 mentions
r/ClaudeCode 1 mentions

What Reddit Praises

Brian Scanlan: Building AI-First at Intercom (with Claude Code)
Brian Scanlan: Building AI-First at Intercom
Tracing Rails monoliths took me days, so I built an auto-visualizer
[Hiring] [FullRemote] [US] 30 Web Dev jobs
Hiring: Full Stack Engineer II at PriceLabs (Fulltime, Remote)

Common Complaints

Simone Carletti: Rails at the Center of DNSimple
Simone Carletti: Rails at the Center of DNSimple
Brian Scanlan: Building AI-First at Intercom (with Claude Code + Ruby on Rails)
Should I add PostgreSQL on my resume even though I didn't notice much of a difference working with it versus MySQL
What's the canonical way to specify the Dockerfile in dev containers now

What Redditors Are Saying

"Rails has an official podcast now 🎉"

r/rails 84 points

"*ihhh n3aaam* lately I've been getting back into web dev with ruby on rails, and I'm using this thing tool [kamal](https://kamal-deploy.org/) along with a VPS for hosting."

r/TunisiaTech 38 points

"As I said to my friend, I'm very proud that the flyers with map projects arrived in Japan and share the same space with the people who are putting Ruby and Ruby on Rails to the next level."

r/rails 24 points

"A deep dive conversation with Simone (CTO of DNSimple) about how Rails fits into their DNS platform."

r/rails 21 points

"Hey r/rubyonrails, The 2026 Ruby on Rails Developer Survey is officially live!"

r/rubyonrails 13 points

"Hello everyone, I try to implement the new error reporter in rails and was wondering how it works with retrying. Has somebody of you already experienced with it?"

r/rails 12 points

Other Backend Frameworks & Platforms Companies on Reddit

Laravel 52 mentions/mo FastAPI 50 mentions/mo Spring Boot 50 mentions/mo Convex 50 mentions/mo Firebase 50 mentions/mo NestJS 42 mentions/mo Express.js 39 mentions/mo Hono 28 mentions/mo

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