On 11/5/05, Sean Corfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Arf! is definitely not something to build large-scale high-traffic
apps from - in the same way that Rails is not either. Those are both
I don't know about Arf! and I don't really know what your definition of a large-scale high-traffic app is but I think Rails may suprise you with the amount of traffic it's apps do seem to handle. Now, granted, the more mainstream apps I have seen with Rails have been fairly trivial but they do seem to support large amounts of traffic fairly well.
43things is the first that comes to mind (43things.com) - but it has a userbase of 120,000+ that use it both via it's web-application and via RSS syndication (RSS that is no doubt generated by the same Rails codebase as the web-app).
Basecamp (a project management application) is pretty responsive as well - though I don't know how widely used it is (they claim thousands of users, but how many are active?)
In the end I dont know how scalable Rails is - but I don't think I would relegate to it purely low traffic "easy" apps off the cuff. I haven't seen any documentation saying it is bad (or good) for high-traffic apps. I'm not sure it is widely used enough to have any real studies on it yet.
If anyone can share some data about the subject though I'd be happy to read it.
Bill
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