Developments in RoR for various industries
Aldibs’ experience with Ruby on Rails has been very successful over time. The versatility of this language has allowed us to develop applications for many different industries.
Read moreRuby is the interpreted, reflective and object-oriented programming language created by the Japanese programmer Yukihiro Matsumoto; it is present in many of the web pages that we visit daily. Let’s have a look at a list of very popular portals and platforms using Ruby.
1. Twitter
This huge social network had to be mentioned because of the millions of users using it around the world every day. In the beginning it was built on Ruby, although it later moved to Scala to be able to manage a large number of messages in real time.
2. Airbnb
It is a company and a software platform dedicated to offering accommodation to individuals and tourists. The name is an acronym for airbed and breakfast. Airbnb has an offering of more than 2,000,000 properties in 192 countries and more than 33,000 cities.
3. Hulu
It is a paid website, supported by advertising, streaming TV shows and movies from NBC, FOX, and many other networks and studios. It currently works only with users in the United States. It is very similar to Netflix or HBO platforms.
4. Groupon
The giant of discounts worldwide. Launched in November 2008 in Chicago, its base is made of Ruby. Millions of people around the world benefit from discounts on the web every day.
5. Bloomberg
Founded in 1981, it is one of the largest corporations in the world dedicated to finance, with its own news agency and trading software; with more than 15,000 employees, it is one of the largest companies in the world using Ruby.
6. SoundCloud
It is known as the YouTube of sound. The Swedish platform manages 175 million visits per month and the upload of twelve hours of audio per minute; it has become a reference for both users and creators. It was originally written in Ruby, but like Twitter, it later adopted Scala for certain parts of the app, although Ruby is still present in the SoundCloud code.
7. GitHub
We could not forget the largest developers’ social network in the world. The GitHub code repository is built on Ruby. It has over 10 million users and stores over 25 million repositories.
