From: khaines@...
Date: 2006-12-29T04:04:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Developpers on rails

On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Strong Cypher wrote:

> I want to start a new project, and I want to start a new project in a
> language robust, with many and easy to find developper on it.
> If project take a good size, I don't want to have poor performance or core
> crash without any solution.
>
> Bref, any good developper, please tell me what you think on ruby ?

If you search the archives of the list, you will find many discussions on 
this topic.

In brief, though, there are many commercially successful Rails based sites 
in existence (look at Basecamp as well as any of 37signals other products, 
43things, etc...).  There are many other Rails examples, and many 
non-rails examples, as well.

I've been using Ruby for custom software and web sites for businesses for 
over four and a half years, now.  I have benchmarked one of my newest 
sites as capable of delivering over 10 million dynamic page requests in a 
day, using a single backend process on a very modest server, with Ruby.

You will find many people on this mailing list who are very happy with 
their choice to use Ruby for their projects.

Now, that said, despite Ruby's growth, finding programmers conversant in 
Ruby is not nearly so easy as it is with some other languages, but that is 
changing.


Kirk Haines