🆚 .NET vs. Ruby on Rails

Type

Software platform
Backend framework

About

.NET is a free, cross-platform, open-source developer platform from Microsoft used to build web, desktop, mobile, cloud, and IoT applications across Windows, Linux, and macOS.

It includes a runtime with automatic memory management, a large standard library and APIs, support for various languages such as C#, F#, and Visual Basic, and a package ecosystem with over 400,000 NuGet packages, along with frameworks like ASP.NET Core for web applications and .NET MAUI for cross-platform interfaces.

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Ruby on Rails is a full-stack web application framework that provides the tools needed to build database-driven applications using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

It emphasizes a standardized project structure and naming, follows DRY ("don't repeat yourself") and "convention over configuration" principles, includes the Active Record ORM for database interaction, a built-in asset pipeline for managing CSS and JavaScript, and an integrated testing framework.

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Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, United States
Chicago, Illinois, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Categories

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Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The .NET platform is 1.6 times more popular than Ruby on Rails.
Total websites

Market share

Platforms

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

.NET is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and India, while Ruby on Rails is more popular in Australia, Germany, and Japan.
United States
United Kingdom
India
China
Italy
Australia
Netherlands
Germany
Turkey
Canada

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

.NET is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while Ruby on Rails is more commonly used on online shopping, fashion and beauty, and blogs and wiki sites.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Fashion/Beauty
Sports
Internet Services
Travel
Software/Hardware
Health

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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See also

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