🆚 Rack vs. Ruby on Rails

📈 Ruby on Rails is much more popular than Rack.
🌍 Ruby on Rails is more popular in all countries.

Statistics based on 3.4M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Rack

Ruby on Rails

Type

Backend framework

About

Rack is a minimal, modular interface and invocation convention that operates between Ruby web servers and web applications to standardize how HTTP requests and responses are exchanged.

It translates raw HTTP requests into a CGI-style environment defined by RFC 3875, supports middleware stacking for step-by-step request and response processing, and is implemented by servers such as Phusion Passenger, Puma, Unicorn, and Thin.

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.

Headquarters

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Website

GitHub #13

rubyonrails.org #180,446

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Ruby on Rails backend framework is 51 times more popular than Rack.

Total websites

Market share

Backend Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Ruby on Rails is more popular than Rack in all countries.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

India

Germany

Netherlands

Canada

Japan

France

Italy

Awards

⭐ 8th most popular in Taiwan in the Backend Frameworks category.
🔥 11st most popular in Japan in the Backend Frameworks category.
🔥 11st most popular in Australia in the Backend Frameworks category.
🔥 11st most popular in New Zealand in the Backend Frameworks category.
🔥 13rd most popular in Canada 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.

Ruby on Rails is more popular than Rack in all market segments.

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Fashion/Beauty

Business

Education/Reference

Entertainment

Sports

Blogs/Wiki

Internet Services

Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#742

#1,831

#1,913

#2,299

#2,406

Name

Rank

#13

#49

#51

#76

#134