Ruby on Rails Reviews

1. Stan

   · Founder at SaaSHub · 12 months ago
   The most productive web framework

   Yes, there are other more trending frameworks; however, nothing reaches the productivity of Rails. It's simply unbeatable if you have a small team.

   For example both SaaSHub and LibHunt were built on Rails.

   🏁 Competitors: Django, Laravel

Nodewood Reviews

Ruby on Rails mentions (141)

• Open Source: A Goldmine for Indie Hackers

  Speed of Development: Frameworks such as Django or Rails accelerate the development process. - Source: dev.to / about 1 hour ago

• Indie Hacking with Open Source Tools: Innovating on a Budget

  This ecosystem is fueled by repositories hosting powerful languages, functions, and versatile tools—from backend frameworks like Django and Ruby on Rails to containerization with Docker and distributed version control via Git. Moreover, indie hackers can also utilize open source design tools (e.g. GIMP, Inkscape) and analytics platforms such as Matomo. - Source: dev.to / 2 days ago

• Charybdis ORM: Building High-Performance Distributed Rust Backends with ScyllaDB

  Ruby on Rails (RoR) is one of the most renowned web frameworks. When combined with SQL databases, RoR transforms into a powerhouse for developing back-end (or even full-stack) applications. It resolves numerous issues out of the box, sometimes without developers even realizing it. For example, with the right callbacks, complex business logic for a single API action is automatically wrapped within a transaction,... - Source: dev.to / 12 days ago

• Ask HN: What's the ideal stack for a solo dev in 2025

  As it's just you I'd stick with Ruby on Rails 8[1] as you already know it and I think it could realistically easily achieve what you're proposing. There's lots of libraries to for calling out external AI services. e.g. Something like FastMCP[2] From the sound of it that's all you need. I'd use Hotwire[3] for the frontend and Hotwire Native if you want to rollout an app version quickly. I'd back it with... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Open Source: A Goldmine for Indie Hackers – Unleashing Creativity and Collaboration

  One of the standout benefits of open source software is its cost-effectiveness. Indie hackers can leverage robust tools such as MySQL and Python, which eliminate the financial barrier to high-quality software solutions. Frameworks like Django and Ruby on Rails enable swift development cycles, reducing the time-to-market for innovative ideas. This low-cost, high-efficiency approach allows entrepreneurs to focus on... - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

Nodewood mentions (16)

• Launchpad to quickly start a SaaS business?

  Hey, thanks for the mention! I'm the creator of Nodewood, and I'm happy to answer any questions anyone has on it, or really anything else in the space I can help with. Source: about 2 years ago

• Build Your Own Web Framework

  This is largely why I built Nodewood [1]. Every time I wanted to start a new project, almost always a SaaS idea, I'd skip over the "boring stuff" like building user management, subscription management, teams, admin, all that, to get to the meat of the business logic, to make sure I had a valid idea. But I still needed all that stuff eventually, so I'd have to lose time later building it all in! So I decided to... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Fresh is a new full stack web framework for Deno

  This is actually part of why I created Nodewood [1], because every new Node project required pulling all that together, and every new SaaS idea I had had the same basic requirements (user management, subscription management, teams support, etc). Then I figured, if I found this useful, surely others would too, so I packaged it up and have had a few happy customers since then, who have helped me refine it, which... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

  Well, I've spoken about this before, and on here no less, but only really in response to posts like this. I don't do any advertising or speak about mine except in interviews, since it's usually indicative of the kind of requirements they're looking for. I created a SaaS bootstrap for Javascript called Nodewood [1]. It actually started as just a template for me, because there's a lot of setup for each new JS web... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Ask HN: Best SaaS Boilerplate?

  Disclaimer: I'm the author of the following boilerplate. Nodewood (https://nodewood.com/) is a Javascript SaaS boilerplate built to take advantage of using Javascript on the server and in the UI. Models, Validators, and other business logic can be re-used in both builds, so you don't have to write, rewrite, and maintain that logic in both places, or in different languages. It has built-in subscription management... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago