A digg-like site could be made with ruby, php, python, etc, they all have web libraries, and rails isn't the only good ruby web framework by a long way (there are lots - merb, ramaze, sinatra etc). Digg is basically a CMS (where the content is web links and comments) and so rails is well suited to the job, since rails was designed as a cms engine, ie a web interface onto a database.
For my degree project a couple of years ago i did a site inspired by Reddit, which is a similar sort of site to digg, rails made it easy. You not liking twitter has nothing to do with rails - it sounds like it's the design of the site that you object to. I don't think you could really notice, as a twitter user, if it was made with cakephp or django instead. It's good that you mention twitter though because an early complaint directed towards rails was that it didn't scale easily - a problem most clearly seen in twitter, which really struggled to cope with its success when it started to take off. This was partly due to the decisions of its creator though, who initially used not just a single database but a SINGLE TABLE to track all of the activity on twitter. As far as i know these scalability concerns have been addressed though, and there are some sites with huge amounts of data and traffic (eg yellowpages.com*) which use rails. *i just checked and yellowpages.com is down! hahahahahaha :) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
