What is the best alternative to Ruby on Rails?

By number of websites, the most widely used alternatives to Ruby on Rails are Express, ASP.NET MVC, Laravel, Django, CodeIgniter. The right one depends on your needs; compare them on adoption, authority, and audience above.

How many alternatives to Ruby on Rails are there?

Site Stats Database tracks 6 other web frameworks used by 100 or more websites, plus a long tail of rarer ones. Ruby on Rails itself is used by 4,821 websites.

Which web framework has the most websites?

Ruby on Rails leads this category with 4,821 websites in our catalog.

Where does this data come from?

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; authority (Ahrefs Domain Rating) and traffic come from Ahrefs and DataForSEO. Everything reflects the sites we track and refreshes at least monthly.

Ruby on Rails Alternatives & Competitors

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Looking for an alternative to Ruby on Rails? Site Stats Database tracks 6 other web frameworks; the top ones are below, ranked by adoption, with authority and traffic for each and the leading sites that use them. Ruby on Rails itself is used by 4,821 websites. Back to Ruby on Rails.

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Ruby on Rails Alternatives & Competitors

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