I was at NFJS too... Dave Thomas' RoR presentation was eye poppping!
 
I think the main concern with RoRs is the scalability. Ruby currently only has 
"green" threads. That is to say, it has an internal threading model and it only 
uses a single native thread. It can spin off ten native threads to scale across 
multiple processors. However, native thread support is due for Ruby 2. Also, 
Dave mentioned that some commercial deployments were using clusters of RoR 
deployments to get around this problem.
 
It's also worth noting that you can serve a ~lot~ of concurrent users on a 
single native process if you're careful with how you work. 
 
I've got Dave's beta book on Rails and am trying to make time to spend more 
time in it.
 
Jared

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Anirban Sharma
Sent: Thu 6/23/2005 8:56 PM
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Subject: RE: [Juglist] "Web Framework Smackdown"




Heard a lot about RonR during the NFJS symposium earlier this month.
Anyone deployed any comercial grade applications with it yet? I heard
about Basecamp. But I am trying to find other examples/experiences.
Some experts on the NFJS panel were saying it is not ready for prime
time yet. Scalability and maintainability were their main concerns.

-Anirban

--- Jared Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > Hmm ... I bet we've got enough web-framework bigots to do
> one'o'those.
> 
> Yeah, sure, but Ruby on Rails is the best one! (ducking and running)
> 
> ;)
> 
> Jared
> 
> Ship It! is shipping!
> http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/prj/
> 
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> Sent: Thu 6/23/2005 8:33 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Juglist] "Web Framework Smackdown"
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https://www28.cplan.com/javaone05_93_1/session_details.jsp?isid=271642&ilocation_id=93-1&ilanguage=english
> > Session Title: Web Framework Smackdown
> > Session Abstract:
> > In this session we look at the most popular web application
> > frameworks and examine the pros and cons of each, paying particular
> > attention to the kinds of applications well suited to each. We
> > examine the problem from several aspects: ease of learning, ease of
> > development, tool support, extensibility (including third party
> > component market), market penetration through real-world
> > deployments, and scalability.
>
> Hmm ... I bet we've got enough web-framework bigots to do
> one'o'those.
>
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