From: Mark VanOrman <mark@...>
Date: 2004-11-19T17:53:18+09:00
Subject: mission critical Ruby?

Hi all,

 I'm about to embark on a large scale project. It's basically a rewrite of a
current application that processes e-commerce transactions. (sending cc
info to bank platforms, creating records in db, handling reporting and the
like. Average load is about 50,000 transactions/day). The current
application is written in PHP as a cgi script. Mod_php is installed on
apache for speed. The main reason for the rewrite is the code clutter and
really bad design.

 I'm supposed to write the application in JAVA, but willing to give Ruby a
chance, because of nicer syntax and other neat features. My main concerns
are 

1- can Ruby handle such a mission critical applications as far as
reliability and speed? 

2- Are there any benchmarks out there that compare PHP to Ruby? 

3- From your experiance, would you think it's better to develop an
application like this as a cgi(people would post transes to apache) or as a
standalone server(post directly to ruby)?

4- Anyone out there with a similar experiance?


Thanks a lot,


Mark