The Best 37 Ruby on Rails Alternatives

  • Django

    Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Python

  • CodeIgniter

    PHP (version 4 or 5) framework with a thin model layer. Includes an ActiveRecord class for database agnostic (mostly) data retrieval. Good community support in its forums. Further development available via GitHub: https://github .

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted

  • CUBA.platform

    A Full Stack Enterprise Java Framework with lots of out of the box functionality and amazing tooling to manage the project.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Symfony

    Symfony is a set of reusable PHP components and a PHP framework for web projects.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web PHP

  • Wakanda

    A full-Stack JavaScript platform (frontend & backend) to develop web & mobile application. All-In-One IDE shaped for Web & Mobile Apps, Angular 1 & 2 supported, Built-in DB, ORM in JavaScript, Connectors to DB, .

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Yii Framework

    Yii is a high-performance component-based PHP framework best for Web 2.0 development. Yii comes with rich features: MVC, DAO/ActiveRecord, I18N/L10N, caching, authentication and role-based access control, scaffolding, testing, etc.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • Agile Toolkit

    Agile Toolkit is a PHP framework for developing Web User Interfaces. Inspired by desktop GUI it provides a full object-oriented foundation for Business and Presentation logic of your web software.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • Zend Framework

    Extending the art & spirit of PHP, Zend Framework is based on simplicity, object-oriented best practices, corporate friendly licensing, and a rigorously tested agile codebase.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • Portofino

    Portofino is a free and open source web framework that helps developers create outstanding enterprise applications by addressing three specific needs: productivity, features and architecture.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • CakePHP

    CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted PHP

  • web2py

    Web2py is an open source web application framework. Web2py is written in the Python language and is programmable in Python.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted Python

  • Play!

    Play is a web application framework, written in Scala and Java, which follows the model–view–controller (MVC) architectural pattern. The Play framework makes it easier to build web applications with Java & Scala.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Pyramid

    Pyramid is an open source web framework written in Python and is based on WSGI. It is a minimalistic web framework inspired by Zope, Pylons and Django.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web Python

  • ViUR.is

    ViUR – the Information System for the Google App Engine™ plattform – is a »sandbox« for designers and developers. With the help of ViUR you can easy build web...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted

  • Pedestal

    Pedestal is a web application framework written in Clojure that aims to bring both the language and its principles to client and server-side development.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux

  • TurboGears

    TurboGears 2 is built on top of the experience of several next generation web frameworks including TurboGears 1 (of course), Django, and Rails. All of these frameworks...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Python

  • bitcore

    A pure and powerful JavaScript Bitcoin library or blockchain library.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux Mac JavaScript

  • TomP2P

    A P2P-based high performance key-value pair storage library.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux