Open Source Ruby Web Development Frameworks

Rails is a web application development framework written in the Ruby programming language. It is designed to make programming web applications easier by making assumptions about what every developer needs to get started. It allows you to write less code while accomplishing more than many other languages and frameworks. Experienced Rails developers also report that it makes web application development more fun.

ZK is an open-source Java framework for building modern web and mobile applications. It enables developers to create rich, interactive UIs using only Java — no JavaScript required. With 200+ Ajax-powered components, event-driven architecture, and support for popular technologies like Spring, Java EE, and JSP/JSF, ZK makes it simple to deliver powerful and user-friendly web applications.

Bricklayer is a Ruby web application framework that uses a component architecture very loosely based on that of perl's HTML::Mason. To see the proof of concept for Bricklayer, check out the Liber RDF Portal project.

The FreeMIS project is an Open Source, web based, Management Information System for high schools. It has recently been ported to the new Ruby on Rails web development framework. Initially the development will focus on the requirements of UK schools.

NARF is an attempt to create a ruby web framework that escapes the weighty thud that one usually associates with web frameworks.

This project aims to create a portal framework using the Ruby on Rails web framework. Users will be able to define his/her own page layouts and add portlets to the pages after done defining the layouts.

RailsDB is a web application written in Ruby using the Ruby on Rails web framework to provide a generic interface to popular open source databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.

Based on the Jakarta Struts project, the Ruby Web Application framework is a framework for developing web/wap applications founded in the Ruby programming language.

To achieve Template CMS has used the Web development framework Ruby on Rails. The tools used are Netbeans and MySQL. Template CMS is a project developed for the Masters of Web Engineering at the University of Oviedo.