🆚 ASP.NET vs. Ruby on Rails

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 ASP.NET is slightly more popular than Ruby on Rails.
🌎 ASP.NET is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and China.
🌍 Ruby on Rails is more popular in Australia, Germany, and Japan.

Type

Backend framework

About

Microsoft ASP.NET is a server-side web application framework that runs on the .NET platform and enables developers to build dynamic websites and APIs using languages like C#.

It offers Web Forms, MVC, Web Pages, Web API, and SignalR for real-time communication, includes tools for authentication, state management, and supports the Razor template syntax for combining HTML and server-side code.

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

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

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Website

asp.net

rubyonrails.org #180,446

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The ASP.NET backend framework is 1.5 times more popular than Ruby on Rails.

Total websites

Market share

Backend Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

ASP.NET is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and China, while Ruby on Rails is more popular in Australia, Germany, and Japan.

United States

United Kingdom

China

India

Italy

Australia

Germany

Netherlands

Canada

Turkey

Awards

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in China in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Backend Frameworks category.

🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Pakistan in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in New Zealand in the Backend Frameworks category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

ASP.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

Entertainment