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Why would you use Rails rather than another framework?

Ruby is a powerful yet simple programming language, but to build an app using Ruby on it's own would still be extremely time-consuming and difficult. Using a framework makes it possible to create an application or website in a very short time as most of the common tasks are already taken care of.

There are a number of Ruby frameworks to choose from, such as Sinatra (more a library than an actual framework but so what?) or Padrino but Rails provides a robust full-stack framework that makes it quick and easy to build scalable apps, and is particularly helpful if you are developing with a large team of people. 

Some of the main advantages of Rails:

- Rails uses an MVC pattern
- Rails encourages use of RESTful routes
- Rails includes many methods for quick 'scaffolding' which means many of the repetitive tasks normally involved in building an application can be completed with one or two lines from the developer
- Rails even assumes you will need a database and creates one for you when you start your project (this is not so easy in many other frameworks)

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