Yeah, that's what I figured: Almost any language could be used. I just wanted to use the easiest and best to do so, and I wasn't sure if those were the same. It seems like rails would be easier than php, but that's a framework to language comparison, so I didn't know if cakephp (or some other iteration) would actually make php a better choice. Yeah, twitter's had some scalability issues, but honestly any site with that much explosive growth would probably buckle, no matter the language used.
I guess my real question is: who has the better community, rails or (cake)php? There seems to be a lot of hype around rails right now, and it may be justly deserved, but I don't want to get 6 months or a year into a project and get stuck. I am leaning towards rails for its ease of use (but cakephp may be just as easy, idk), but a lot more companies, and a lot more programmers use php. Should I pick php for that reason? On Jul 23, 4:40 am, Max Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 viahttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
