Ramaze doesn't introduce any major change of paradigm for everyone familiar with Ruby and the basics of Web development.

Ramaze is intuitive and easy to learn. Most functionality is built in a way that helps, not in a way that obfuscates or confuses.

Use what you want and how you want to.

Ramaze lets you use one of the most powerful programming languages available, Ruby, giving you full control over your system.

Even the most essential parts of Ramaze can easily be replaced or modified without losing the advantage of the whole framework.

Ramaze has two dependencies: Ruby itself, and Rack.

Most features are integrated in a very modular style that only require you to install the third-party packages that you really use.

Everything is documented: classes, modules, methods, configuration. Through extensive documentation Ramaze gives the developer easy access to a solid understanding of the underlying concepts and functionality.

Everyone is welcome to contribute to Ramaze, and it's very easy to do so. The repository is open for patches which pass the test suite. Once you have supplied some good patches, you will get free access to the developer repository.

For more information about the Ramaze darcs repository and how to get involved, read Contributing.

Everyone learns differently: some only read the source, others browse documentation; but everyone loves examples for a quick and painless start. Ramaze addresses this need and offers a wide variety of examples of usage, basic functionality, project layout and more advanced applications.

Ramaze has a very complete set of test "specifications" written in Bacon. These specs define the way Ramaze ought to behave.

The specs are checked every time a new patch is pushed into the repository, and are used to ensure the patch is valid and doesn't break the framework.

Ramaze had 91.3% coverage as of a recent audit.