--- title: Why we're sticking with Ruby on Rails | daily.dev description: When David Heinemeier Hansson created Ruby on Rails he was guided by his experience with both PHP and Java. With its solid, metaprogrammable Smalltalk heritage... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-we-re-sticking-with-ruby-on-rails-l1j4w2vkl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why we're sticking with Ruby on Rails | daily.dev og:description: When David Heinemeier Hansson created Ruby on Rails he was guided by his experience with both PHP and Java. With its solid, metaprogrammable Smalltalk heritage... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-we-re-sticking-with-ruby-on-rails-l1j4w2vkl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/l1j4W2VKL.png og:image:alt: Why we're sticking with Ruby on Rails og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why we're sticking with Ruby on Rails **[GitLab](https://daily.dev/sources/gitlab)** · 5 min read · 18 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary When David Heinemeier Hansson created Ruby on Rails he was guided by his experience with both PHP and Java. With its solid, metaprogrammable Smalltalk heritage and good Unix integration, Ruby proved to be the perfect vehicle for DHH to fill that desirable bottom right corner of the table. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@idoshamun** · 2 upvotes > Ruby on Rails makes money and we can see it everywhere. GitHub, Airbnb, GitLab apparently, and many other big corps. Makes me wanna try it at least 😅 **@shankhara** · 1 upvotes > I ended my scholarship at 42 Paris and discovered web through RubyOnRails. > The framework and its ecosystem make it a real pleasure to work with. > The ROR documentation is precise and clear, ruby and ROR blogs are written with passion, you can feel it. > Nowadays I am working in mobile app development and I am missing it ! > I've seen huge backend server using ROR and Nest.js: in terms of devx, there is no need to compare. RoR wins. --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#gitlab](https://daily.dev/tags/gitlab), [#monolith](https://daily.dev/tags/monolith), [#rails](https://daily.dev/tags/rails), [#ruby](https://daily.dev/tags/ruby) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/why-we-re-sticking-with-ruby-on-rails-l1j4w2vkl) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Why we're sticking with Ruby on Rails","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-we-re-sticking-with-ruby-on-rails-l1j4w2vkl","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-we-re-sticking-with-ruby-on-rails-l1j4w2vkl"},"datePublished":"2022-07-06T12:49:38.651Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T03:39:57.883Z","description":"When David Heinemeier Hansson created Ruby on Rails he was guided by his experience with both PHP and Java. 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