A Review Study of Frameworks Used in Developing Web-based Applications Django, Ruby on Rails and Cake PhP

Abstract

Due to the large on line services, there are a lot of different frameworks used to develop web applications. The process of selecting proper framework that fulfil the purpose for which applications to be the most suitable was considered. Hence before developing the application the user must go through a lot of steps mainly his ability to deal with framework and the programming language used to develop the framework. The main objective of this research is to perform a comprehensive review and a comparison on the most popular frameworks used to develop web application specifically Django, Ruby on Rails and Cake PHP in order to help the user to select a proper framework that suits the scope of the required applications. The selection methodology is based on software engineering criteria, namely: documentation, lines of code, community and validation. The results show that the best framework based on the four criteria is Ruby on Rails. For more comparison and review the results of the questionnaire show that the Ruby on Rails is the best framework. The study recommends more evaluation studies based on other software engineering criterion such as user interference, etc, must be done on the Django, Ruby on Rails and Cake PHP frameworks.