From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-10-20T00:05:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Is anyone using Ruby for 24/7 financial applications?

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Francis Cianfrocca wrote:

> On 10/18/06, John Baylor <john.baylor@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I know a lot of people are using ruby on rails for web apps, usually with
>> Apache as the underlying app, but I don't know of anyone using ruby itself
>> for a 24/7 application.  Yes, some people are using webrick as their web
>> server but they don't necessarily lose $$$ if their personal web site goes
>> down.
>
> The first Ruby program I ever wrote was a pure-Ruby RADIUS authentication
> server. I wrote it the same day I learned Ruby.This was over three years
> ago. It's still in production now, on multiple sites. It's been rock-solid
> and stable from Day 1. The code has not changed in all that time except to
> add new features.

here you confirm something i've long asserted, but few people seem to beleive:
'old' peices of code still sitting at version 0.0.0 are likely to be quite
stable.  they are like sharks: evolution got it right the first time.

cheers.

-a
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