From: Christian Neukirchen Date: 2006-10-21T05:42:45+09:00 Subject: Re: Is anyone using Ruby for 24/7 financial applications? ara.t.howard@noaa.gov writes: > On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Francis Cianfrocca wrote: > >> On 10/18/06, John Baylor 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. And the old code looks so dangerous you don't dare to touch it, because it *will* bite you... ;-) > -a -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org