Ruby on Rails is a popular rapid-application-development (RAD) framework loved by startups and mature businesses alike. Its main attraction is the ability to produce complex large scale websites that are also efficient with minimal effort.

The Ruby on Rails community is very active with the framework, continuously adding features, improving performance and patching security vulnerabilities.

Despite the advantages, many businesses are reluctant to upgrade the framework continuously. Upgrading Rails, or for that matter, any other framework, would end up being necessary. There are no upsides and only downsides for delaying an upgrade.

Here I intend to discuss the advantages to upgrade Ruby on Rails frequently.