On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Robert Walker < [email protected]> wrote:
> > Karthikeyan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have heard that ROR has scalability problems. I have heard that > > Twitter which used rails has abandoned it and is moving to PHP. Is it > > true? > > AFAIK this forum was created for Rails developers to help other Rails > developers with problems. So if you're looking for help on how to scale > Rails, maybe starting off with such a negative comment isn't really in > your best interest. > > A couple of corrections though: Last I heard Twitter was implementing, > at least, some parts of their site using Scala. I've not heard anything > about them using PHP. Also, Twitter is just one example, and not a very > good one at that. Let's not forget that there are many sites using Rails > successfully, and I'd wager that a good number of those are handling a > lot more traffic than anything you'll be building. > I agree with you 100% because Hulu.com and Shopify.com are built on Ruby on Rails to name a few. Furthermore, the Ruby VMs are getting much better than MRI with JRuby and forthcoming VMs: Maglev and MacRuby. In time, we will get there. -Conrad > If you're truly interested in how to scale Rails applications, rather > than trying to insult the people you're hoping to get help from, you > might enjoy this series sponsored by New Relic: > > http://railslab.newrelic.com/scaling-rails Actually, one would use New Relic to monitor to Rails application > <http://railslab.newrelic.com/scaling-rails> > -- > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
