What is Rails Spring?
Spring is a Rails application preloader. It speeds up development by keeping your application running in the background so you don't need to boot it every time you run a test, rake task or migration.
Rails Spring is a tool in the Rails Testing category of a tech stack.
Rails Spring is an open source tool with 2.8K GitHub stars and 333 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Rails Spring's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Rails Spring?
Companies
18 companies reportedly use Rails Spring in their tech stacks, including 5miles, Referral SaaSquatch, and Durham AV Group.
Developers
61 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Rails Spring.
Rails Spring Integrations
Rails Spring's Features
- Totally automatic
- no need to explicitly start and stop the background process
- Reloads your application code on each run
- Restarts your application when configs / initializers / gem dependencies are changed
Rails Spring Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Rails Spring?
Spring
A key element of Spring is infrastructural support at the application level: Spring focuses on the "plumbing" of enterprise applications so that teams can focus on application-level business logic, without unnecessary ties to specific deployment environments.
Spring Boot
Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can "just run". We take an opinionated view of the Spring platform and third-party libraries so you can get started with minimum fuss. Most Spring Boot applications need very little Spring configuration.
Rails
Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.
Django
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
Spring MVC
A Java framework that follows the Model-View-Controller design pattern and provides an elegant solution to use MVC in spring framework by the help of DispatcherServlet.
