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What major entities are scaling with Ruby on Rails and would you recommend going that route?

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shakespear... shakespear...
 
 March 07, 2009 01:44 AM | view on twitter
There's a whole site, WorkingWithRails.com, that addresses this issue. You'll find names on there like Amazon, IBM, Oracle, NASA... None of them are stupid companies rushing to jump on bandwagons, you can be sure.

Personally, I do Rails full time. Well, when I'm not porting old PHP code. But the future of anyplace I'm at is going to be Rails, at least for areas where it makes most sense. I'm not advocating Rails for it's own sake. It hits the right sweet spot for me, a language I actually enjoy that enables me to get things done very fast that still end up as quality software.
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http://www.workingwithrails.com/high-profile-organisations



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March 06, 2009 11:39 PM | view on twitter
Twitter is the biggest Ruby on Rails site, and I believe Mahalo Answers was developed in Ruby on Rails. Twitter was having some challenges scaling in the beginning, and if you have a choice between Ruby on Rails or something like PHP or Java, it would be recommended that you choose the latter as they typically scale better.

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markjeffre... markjeffre...
 
March 07, 2009 01:11 AM - Fact Refuted
Mahalo Answers was actually *not* developed in Ruby -- we did it in Django / Python.

However you are correct about Twitter: it was developed in Ruby. Goodreads.com is also developed in Ruby. However, at this point, Django is fairly widely acknowledged as the framework that truly delivers on the promise that Ruby began with.

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easyeboy easyeboy
 
March 07, 2009 06:02 AM
So, I guess Python scales pretty well if YouTube was written in Python.

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