Ruby vs. CoffeeScript
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What is Ruby?Ruby is a language of careful balance. Its creator, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) to form a new language that balanced functional programming with imperative programming.
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What is CoffeeScript?CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. Underneath that awkward Java-esque patina, JavaScript has always had a gorgeous heart. CoffeeScript is an attempt to expose the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way.
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Pricing |
How much does Ruby cost?
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Companies |
What companies use Ruby?
2921 companies on StackShare use Ruby
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What companies use CoffeeScript?
445 companies on StackShare use CoffeeScript
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Integrations |
What tools integrate with Ruby?
73 tools on StackShare integrate with Ruby
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What tools integrate with CoffeeScript?
2 tools on StackShare integrate with CoffeeScript
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What are some alternatives to Ruby and CoffeeScript?
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Latest News |
Multiple vulnerabilities in RubyGems
February 16, 2018
Rustic Nil Handling in Ruby
February 12, 2018
Moving Custom Ruby Code out of the Logstash Pipeline
January 25, 2018
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Related Comparisons
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Reviews of Ruby and CoffeeScript
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kfretwell33Simple to learn
November 11, 2016 09:26
I taught myself Ruby about a year ago. I had experience with HTML/CSS, MySQL, and a little bit of javascript and python but would consider this my first true programming language I became proficient in (later picked up Swift).
I started with a CodeAcademy course before working on my first Rails project. The language is easy to read and Rails is an amazing framework. The online community is fantastic, the documentation is amazing, and there is no shortage of Ruby Gems which allows you to quickly "cobble" together a new project.
Ease of Use Documentation Reliability Support
How developers use Ruby vs CoffeeScript
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StackShare uses Ruby
Only thing worth noting here is that we saw some major issues with memory swapping on Heroku with Ruby 2.1.2. We weren’t the only ones. So we actually reverted back to 2.0.0. Here’s what happened:
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benyomin uses Ruby
When we are comparing Turing complete languages it's not about what compiles faster or to the cleanest machine code, it's about what the developer can think in and write faster, including the availability of libraries. A couple of times I wrote some ruby scripts for this project. I just like the language best for some things. Love the syntax.
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SaberEsPoder uses Ruby
We are primarily a Ruby shop; our main apps are running on Ruby + Rails, our Slack bot is written in Ruby and our smaller projects are on Sinatra. It makes it really easy for us to re-use code and switch between different projects since they are all on the same language.
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toolmantim uses Ruby
Because happiness. Testing via RSpec (mostly model and request specs), Factory Girl for fixtures, VCR for testing API responses, timecop, Redcarpet for Markdown rendering, Intercom gem for posting events.
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Karma uses Ruby
Most of our services are written in Ruby. We started out as a Ruby shop, but we're slowly also moving some stuff to Go. We're using Go more and more these days, actually, including some backend services.
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Oomba uses CoffeeScript
All of our Javascript code is first written in CoffeeScript for ease of reading / writing. It is compiled to Javascript before being minified and served to the client.
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opening.io uses CoffeeScript
All front-end / back-end is driven by Coffeescript. For the main ReactJS functionality JSX is embedded with coffee in .cjsx files / handled by Browserify.
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jflynn33 uses CoffeeScript
We like CoffeeScript because it's more readable, we use it because we have a lot of libraries and functions already (plays nicely with Rails, too)
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