From: Stefan Schmiedl Date: 2006-10-20T05:55:12+09:00 Subject: Re: Is anyone using Ruby for 24/7 financial applications? On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:13:49 +0900, khaines wrote: > I did the stupid thing. I picked Ruby and IOWA. I hacked IOWA until I > had a workable solution, and built the site. ... and Kirk does an awesome job of improving IOWA ever since. I have several (quite simple, non-critical, low-volume) IOWA web-apps running without problems as long as the underlying hardware holds out. And if speed is your concern, go ahead and compare whatever you want to IOWA/mongrel or IOWA/EventMachine ... blazingly fast. s.