The reasons why Ruby on Rails has emerged as one of the hottest technologies

• Being a powerful web application framework, Ruby on Rails ensures agile web development process.
• It facilitates rapid web application development, increasing the efficiency of the developers
• Rails gives the developers a real productivity boost for developing web applications and Ruby offers domain specific languages.
• Ruby on Rails helps in simplifying the process of writing codes and also in checking the code quality, which ensures quality applications.
• Ruby on rails is based on model view controller (MVC) architecture that helps in dividing the whole application into layers. And that makes the whole application very manageable.
• Important websites that use Ruby on Rails are; Crunchbase, BaseCamp, Hulu, SpiceWorks, Penny Arcade, Twitter, Xing, and Yellowpages.com.