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Why Shopify Use Ruby on Rails?

Last updated on October 1, 2022 @ 5:30 pm

Shopify is a Canadian e-commerce company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario. It is also the name of its proprietary e-commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale systems. Shopify offers online retailers a suite of services “including payments, marketing, shipping and customer engagement tools to simplify the process of running an online store for small merchants.

Shopify was founded in 2004 by Tobias Lütke, Daniel Weinand, and Scott Lake after attempting to open Snowdevil, an online store for snowboarding equipment. Shopify launched its platform in 2006. Lütke is the CEO as of March 2015.

Since its launch, Shopify has quickly become a popular ecommerce platform. As of September 2016, Shopify powers over 377,500 businesses in approximately 150 countries and is trusted by brands such as Tesla Motors, Budweiser, Red Bull, LA Lakers, the New York Stock Exchange, GoldieBlox, and many more.

Shopify has been awarded numerous times as a top Canadian employer. In 2015, it ranked #1 on Deloitte’s Fast50 list and #3 on PROFIT 500’s list of Canada’s Fastest Growing Companies. In 2016, it ranked #21 on Forbes Cloud 100 list.

One of the main reasons Shopify has become so popular is because it offers users an easy way to create an online store without any prior experience or technical knowledge. You can sign up for a free 14-day trial here (no credit card required) and see for yourself how easy it is to create a beautiful online store using Shopify.

PRO TIP: If you are considering using Shopify to build an ecommerce site, be aware that they use Ruby on Rails. While Ruby on Rails is a popular web application framework, it is not as widely used as other frameworks such as PHP or ASP.NET. This means that finding hosting and development services for your Shopify site may be more difficult and expensive than if you used a more common framework.

Why Shopify Use Ruby on Rails?

Shopify use Ruby on Rails because it offers users an easy way to create an online store without any prior experience or technical knowledge.

Madison Geldart

Madison Geldart

Cloud infrastructure engineer and tech mess solver.