tools VS Ruby on Rails

Compare tools vs Ruby on Rails and see what are their differences.

tools

Unified developer tools for JavaScript, TypeScript, and the web (by rome)
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tools Ruby on Rails
43 465
24,334 54,730
- 0.8%
0.0 10.0
7 months ago 6 days ago
Rust Ruby
MIT License MIT License
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

tools

Posts with mentions or reviews of tools. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-25.
  • Build a Vite 5 backend integration with Flask
    11 projects | dev.to | 25 Feb 2024
    Once you build a simple Vite backend integration, try not to complicate Vite's configuration unless you absolutely must. Vite has become one of the most popular bundlers in the frontend space, but it wasn't the first and it certainly won't be the last. In my 7 years of building for the web, I've used Grunt, Gulp, Webpack, esbuild, and Parcel. Snowpack and Rome came-and-went before I ever had a chance to try them. Bun is vying for the spot of The New Hotness in bundling, Rome has been forked into Biome, and Vercel is building a Rust-based Webpack alternative.
  • BiomeJS 2024 Roadmap
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jan 2024
    It definitely existed by the time rome_console/biome_console was created! The crate was created 2 years ago[1] and miette was released more than 2 years ago[2]. By the time rome_console was created miette was on v4, so presumably somewhat mature.

    [1]: https://github.com/rome/tools/commits/main/crates/rome_conso...

    [2]: https://crates.io/crates/miette/versions

  • JavaScript Gom Jabbar
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jul 2023
    I have no idea how true this is, but the source of the claim seems to come from here:

    https://github.com/rome/tools/discussions/4302

    "But in short, the company Rome Tools ran out of funding, so the core team of last year are no longer working on the project."

  • Rome v12.1: a Rust-based linter formatter for TypeScript, JSX and JSON
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 May 2023
    For now, Rome implements most of the ESLint recommended rules (including TypeScript ESLint) and some additional rules that are enabled by default. In the future, you can expect a recommended preset that is a superset of the ESLint recommended preset. So if you're not heavily customising ESLint, you should be able to use Rome.

    Otherwise, most of the rules are not fine-tunable in the way that ESLint is. Rome tries to provide the experience that Prettier provided in the formatting tool: good defaults for a near-zero configuration experience. It tries to adopt the conventions of the JS/TS community. Still, some configuration is provided when the community is divided on some opinions (e.g. space vs. tab indentation, semicolons or as-needed semicolons, ...).

    There is an open issue [1] for listing equivalent rules between ESLint and Rome. Expect more documentation in the future, and maybe a migration tool.

    If I had been one of the founders of Rome, I could have pushed for more compatibility with ESLint. In particular, using the same naming conventions and thus the same names for most rules, and recognising ESLint ignore comments.

    [1] https://github.com/rome/tools/issues/3892

    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 May 2023
    Is not an official source, but it seems that it is the case according to this discussion[0], searching in the social media accounts there's nothing, also Sebastian[1] didn't published anything more about Rome since December

    [0] https://github.com/rome/tools/discussions/4302

    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 May 2023
    Looking at the top contributors (https://github.com/rome/tools/graphs/contributors) that does not seem to be true?

    It is Ireland, undisclosed (the founder, so probably SF), France, and UK.

  • Complete rewrite of ESLint (GitHub discussion by the creator)
    5 projects | /r/javascript | 25 Nov 2022
    I must say, although it doesn't (of course) have anywhere near the configuration or plugin-capability of eslint, I've found Rome impressive so far. I have access to a range of PCs and the performance boost of a compiled binary makes a pretty big difference on a large repo on a slower machine.
  • Porting 58000 lines of D and C++ to jai, Part 0: Why and How
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Nov 2022
    Fast compilation seems very appealing. It is one of the main reason why I am interested into Go and Zig.

    I recently started working with Rust for contributing to projects like Rome/tools [1] and deno_lint [2]. The compilation and IDE experience is frustrating. Compilation is slow. I am afraid that this is rooted to the inherent complexity of Rust.

    [1] https://github.com/rome/tools

    [2] https://github.com/denoland/deno_lint

  • Is Turbopack really 10x Faster than Vite ?
    4 projects | /r/programming | 1 Nov 2022
    Rome is a much more interesting project to me personally. It seems to have a more open source and ambitious approach to improving dev experience.
  • The creator of Webpack introduces Turbopack, a Rust-based successor that's 700x faster
    6 projects | /r/rust | 25 Oct 2022
    I'm a lot more interested in Rome

Ruby on Rails

Posts with mentions or reviews of Ruby on Rails. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-11.
  • 16 Best Ruby Frameworks For Web Development [2024]
    6 projects | dev.to | 11 Mar 2024
    Ruby on Rails is regarded as one of the best ruby frameworks. It was the primary language in developing big projects such as Twitter and helped the language boost the community. Often referred to as “Rails,” Ruby on Rails is a web development framework with an MVC control structure and currently running its 6.1 version. The 16-year-old language has dramatically influenced the web development structures and managing databases, web pages, and other components on a web application.
  • Ruby on Rails load testing habits
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jan 2024
    Rails isn't super opinionated about database writes, its mostly left up to developers to discover that for relational DBs you do not want to be doing a bunch of small writes all at once.

    That said it specifically has tools to address this that started appearing a few years ago https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/35077

    The way my team handles it is to stick Kafka in between whats generating the records (for us, a bunch of web scraping workers) and and a consumer that pulls off the Kafka queue and runs an insert when its internal buffer reaches around 50k rows.

    Rails is also looking to add some more direct background type work with https://github.com/basecamp/solid_queue but this is still very new - most larger Rails shops are going to be running a second system and a gem called Sidekiq that pulls jobs out of Redis.

  • First commits in a Ruby on Rails app
    6 projects | dev.to | 17 Jan 2024
    Here is what strict_loading does (source):
  • Continuous Deployment with GitHub Actions and Kamal
    4 projects | dev.to | 7 Jan 2024
    Kamal is a wonderfully simple way to deploy your applications anywhere. It will also be included by default in Rails 8. Kamal is trivial, but I don’t recommend using it on your development machine.
  • Jets: The Ruby Serverless Framework
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Dec 2023
    I think that you're conflating correlation with causation. I think it's more plausible to assume it was the early numbers that are skewed and non-representative.

    The fact that GitHub itself was is a killer app of the Ruby on Rails, and that the Rails project itself changed to being hosted on GitHub somewhat very early on it's history [1] had a disproportionate effect on the early community that gathered there.

    Now GitHub attracts a much more diverse portfolio of projects, so the numbers you see there are less statistically biased towards early Ruby on Rails adopters.

    [1] Commit history on the main branch of rails/rails via github goes as far as Apr 10, 2008 https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/c67e985994362290308073...

  • understanding Rails version maintenance policy?
    4 projects | /r/rails | 7 Dec 2023
    Done! https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/50295
    4 projects | /r/rails | 7 Dec 2023
    releaseCycle: "6.1" releaseDate: 2020-12-09 eol: 2024-06-01 # https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/46895#issuecomment-1673353127 latest: "6.1.7.6" latestReleaseDate: 2023-08-22
    4 projects | /r/rails | 7 Dec 2023
    You might have luck. It does look like docs changes are being accepted into 7.1-stable branch: https://github.com/rails/rails/commits/7-1-stable/
  • Rage: Fast web framework compatible with Rails
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Dec 2023
    Also this doesn't show how database access is handled which is the hard part. If you are not touching the database, you can run Rails on falcon and get fiber based concurrency.

    If you run falcon on rails and access database, then you have to explicitly checkin/checkout a connection to be safe. Details here - https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/42271.

  • HTML Data Attributes: One of the Original State Management Libraries
    5 projects | dev.to | 29 Nov 2023
    DEV is a Rails monolith, which uses Preact in the front-end using islands architecture. The reason why I mention all this is that it's not a full-stack JavaScript application, and there is no state management library like Redux or Zustand in use. The data store, for the most part on the front end, is all data attributes.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tools and Ruby on Rails you can also consider the following projects:

Roda - Routing Tree Web Toolkit

Hanami - The web, with simplicity.

Sinatra - Classy web-development dressed in a DSL (official / canonical repo)

CodeBehind Framework - 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.

Cuba - Rum based microframework for web development.

Padrino - Padrino is a full-stack ruby framework built upon Sinatra.

yjit - Optimizing JIT compiler built inside CRuby

react-on-rails - Integration of React + Webpack + Rails + rails/webpacker including server-side rendering of React, enabling a better developer experience and faster client performance.

Syro - Simple router for web applications

Django - The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

ihp - 🔥 The fastest way to build type safe web apps. IHP is a new batteries-included web framework optimized for longterm productivity and programmer happiness

Ramaze - Ramaze is a simple, light and modular open-source web application framework written in Ruby.