Re: FN-FORUM: Ruby / Ruby on Rails

date posted 12th December 2006 11:50



Gary Short wrote:
>> webmetric wrote:
>>
>>> They are quite lovely - but unless you have your own servers they can be
>>>
>> a
>>
>>> bugger to host.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Oh yes, +1 on the hosting.
>>
>> The platform is so cool and so popular at the moment that Rails hosts
>> will be pretty much ubiquitous a year from now,
>>
>
> No it won't. RoR has scaling issues that will have to be overcome before it will
> be ubiquitous and I don't see those being fixed inside a year. Until then it'll
> be a (very nice) niche platform, suitable for the odd little job. Not something
> you will earn a living at.
>
On the contrary, I am earning a living with it. I'm pretty sure that
people like 37Signals and Penny Arcade are paying the rent with it too.

It scales as well as any other scripting language and the built-in
clustering stuff that Mongrel offers looks to be a very good route
towards seamless expansion and built-in load balancing. I wouldn't want
to use it if I was hosting a site on a 386 but modern hardware is fairly
tough, I reckon it's up to the job.

It is still young enough to be a fast-moving platform so information
from while back may not still be correct and it has a very active
community prepared to muck in and fix stuff that isn't working the way
people need it to. Good for progress, bad for having to keep up with
regular version changes.

-ben