If you are curious to know which sites are built with Ruby on Rails, then this article is for you. In a previous blog we have mentioned that startups tend to choose Ruby on Rails for a variety of reason. Same reasons reflect here. These 8 following sites use the framework or at least these were built with Ruby on Rails initially.
TWITTER
Twitter is the most popular micro blogging platform in the world. It was envisioned by Dorsey as the sms of the internet. Twitter was first developed in 2006 with public release in 2007. It was developed in Ruby on Rails. Later it shifted its framework due to scalability. Like we said, startups have some special interest in Ruby on Rails.
SHOPIFY
Shopify is SaaS e-commerce platform. Basically, the merchants subscribes and uses Shopify for selling their product online or in store. Shopify was developed by Lütke in Ruby on Rails. He spent two months to develop the e-commerce platform for their snowboarding website. Interestingly, he did it because he was very dissatisfied with the existing platforms. In 2006, Shopify opened up to merchant and began enjoying significant growth.
GROUPON
Groupon is a deal of the day platform that issues discounted gift certificate a buy can use at variety of stores. Groupon was initially build with Ruby on Rails. It has enjoyed significant growth and now has 3 billion+ market capitalization. However, its business model has been heavily criticized since it inception. The criticism has been further bolstered by steady decline in sales and the ousting of the Founder-CEO Mr. Andrew D. Mason.
BLOOMBERG
Bloomberg is a private software, data and media company. It currently employs 15000 employees. Bloomberg provides analytical and stock trading platform, data and news services to companies through Bloomberg terminal.
SOUNDCLOUD
SoundCloud is a social platform for sound. It is like audio youtube where anybody can upload any sound or tunes and share them publicly or privately. Today, everyone is on multiple social platform. This has added a new dimension to SoundCloud. It is growing everyday and becoming a concern for other paid platform like iTunes and Google Play.
SQUARE
Square is making commerce easier for both enterprises and consumers. It was co-founded by twitter.com co-founder Dorsey. It makes credit card readers and stands that are attached with phones and tables. Users swap cards through these readers and make purchases.
GITHUB
The hub is the social platform for programmers. Git works a repository where coders push codes and conduct review. It is a leading website for code share. If you are a programmer/ developer applying for a job, many times perhaps you have noticed employers asking for your Github username to see your work. Github significantly facilitates the development of web application.
SLIDESHARE
Another site built with Ruby on Rails is Slideshare. Slideshare is one of the most popular education and e-learning platform. It hosts different presentation slides and documents from users. Headed by CEO and Co-founder Ms. Rashmi Sinha, Slideshare is growing in popularity every day. It supports PowerPoint, PDF, Keynote and OpenDocument and also it hosts variety of documents from users.
The article merely introduces the sites, does not go into technicalities. The purpose was to show you that there are many strong web platform that use the Ruby on Rails. If you are interested to use Ruby on Rails for your next project, you can choose Ruby on Rails and for that