Can Ruby on rails be used for desktop Apps? What are its advantages?

Ruby On Rails

Yes, Ruby on Rail can be used for desktop/native applications. But there may arise another question “why you want to do that?” if you are wishing to run a local server which is again resource hungry and insufficient. There are other ways too for developing a desktop app.

By using Rail, you can bundle all the gems and run local server.

Advantage of using Ruby on Rail for desktop apps

1. RoR generally provides advantage for software development as a whole and not just web software development. MVC can be used for either type and Ruby is a general purpose programming language that is much versatile for variety of domains.

2.  Rail is a web application framework, so it relies on a web server and it is not designed for desktop development. There are other alternatives that utilizes ruby for desktop development in a more effective way.

3.   It is advised to use JRuby to write a desktop application. Some other alternatives could be RubyCocoa and RubyMotion. You can use Ruby on Rail to bundle your application as a native app, then you need to address a number of steps.

4.  You can use note webkitane begins with default Rail server 0.0.0:3000, put toolbar : false in package.json, then you can have desktop application with ruby on rails. Ruby on Rail along with note webkit allows you to easily distribute your application over local network.

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