Sharkbench

Benchmarking programming languages and web frameworks

Ruby on Rails (Ruby)

Ruby on Rails is a full-featured web application framework written in Ruby that follows the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. Created by David Heinemeier Hansson in 2004, Rails emphasizes "convention over configuration" and "don't repeat yourself" (DRY) principles, enabling developers to build database-backed applications with less code. It includes a robust suite of integrated tools including Active Record ORM, routing, templating engines, and middleware, making it ideal for rapid development of complex web applications.

This benchmark tests how fast a framework can perform concurrent HTTP requests, I/O operations, and JSON de/serialization.

OS: Linux/DockerCPU: Ryzen 7 7800X3DLast Updated: 2025-05-04

MedianP99

Framework	Requests per second Indicates how many requests per second the framework can handle. (higher is better)	Latency Indicates how long it takes to process a request. (lower is better)	Stability Indicates how stable the framework is under load: median / P99 latency (higher is better)	Memory Indicates how much memory (RAM) the framework uses. (lower is better)
Ruby v3.4 / Ruby on Rails v8	1100	1.9 ms	0.69 %	130.6 MB
Ruby v3.2 / Ruby on Rails v8	1110	2.4 ms	0.82 %	127.0 MB

About Ruby

Paradigm

Object-Oriented, Imperative

Execution

Interpreted

Typing

Dynamic

Null Safety

NO

Memory Management

Garbage Collection

Ruby is a dynamic, open-source programming language developed by Yukihiro Matsumoto with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax designed for programmer happiness and expressive code. Ruby is commonly used for building web applications through the Ruby on Rails framework, which follows the Model-View-Controller pattern.

Ruby web frameworks

How does Ruby on Rails compare other Ruby frameworks?

MedianP99

Framework	Requests per second Indicates how many requests per second the framework can handle. (higher is better)	Latency Indicates how long it takes to process a request. (lower is better)	Stability Indicates how stable the framework is under load: median / P99 latency (higher is better)	Memory Indicates how much memory (RAM) the framework uses. (lower is better)
Ruby / Ruby on Rails	1100	1.9 ms	0.69 %	130.6 MB

Popular web frameworks

How does Ruby on Rails compare to other popular frameworks?

MedianP99

Framework	Requests per second Indicates how many requests per second the framework can handle. (higher is better)	Latency Indicates how long it takes to process a request. (lower is better)	Stability Indicates how stable the framework is under load: median / P99 latency (higher is better)	Memory Indicates how much memory (RAM) the framework uses. (lower is better)
Rust / Axum	21030	1.6 ms	71.96 %	8.5 MB
C# (.NET) / ASP.NET Core	14707	1.2 ms	2.64 %	136.5 MB
JavaScript (Node.js) / Express	5766	5.5 ms	64.50 %	82.5 MB
Go / Gin	3546	1.0 ms	1.14 %	16.7 MB
Python / FastAPI (Uvicorn)	1185	21.0 ms	21.21 %	41.2 MB
Java (Temurin) / Spring Boot (MVC)	1105	1.7 ms	1.67 %	596.8 MB
Ruby / Ruby on Rails	1100	1.9 ms	0.69 %	130.6 MB
Python / Flask (Gunicorn)	1092	7.7 ms	9.22 %	90.3 MB
Python / Django (Gunicorn)	950	8.8 ms	10.33 %	130.1 MB
PHP / Laravel	299	101.7 ms	56.47 %	84.2 MB