What about Ruby On Rails(RoR) JSON and MySQL for Backend?

Question

in my search for creating a backend, i found that Ruby On Rails can make my day, and of course learning another language it's very fun!, what is your opinion about Ruby on Rails with JSON for the Backend side? i am creating a game for personal project, and i need to get some data to achieve a good gaming experience! so, what are your opinions about this? pros and cons of course, it does not matter the time i will invest, but i guess it is great for learning and break the learning curve, what do you think? Hope you can share your opinions and personal experiences! Thanks!

Answer 1

It's better to choose a database backend if you are going to build a Rails application. If the data should be structured in JSON, you may choose Mongodb which is very popular solution for noSQL backend. If the game is designed with traditional structure, MySQL and Postgresql are all very good choices supporting your business. ActiveRecord is core of Rails and has well designed APIs and many many powerful methods and helpers that could make your development easy. So using SQL backend DB is a good option.