From: Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2007-09-24T03:28:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Recent Criticism about Ruby (Scalability, etc.)

forrie@gmail.com wrote:
> I presume most people here read today's article on Slashdot which had
> some critique about Ruby and scaling to a large architecture.  Though
> the article didn't seem to elaborate into specifics, I'm interested in
> other people's feedback and perspective on this.
> 
> I'm currently learning Ruby.  One of the first questions I had (and
> Googled for) had to do with scalability, for large enterprise-class
> applications.   I found a couple of articles, but haven't yet tested
> this in a lab setting.   Then there is Parrot, which I've not used
> yet.
> 
>>From what I have learned in the past (and that may not be very
> complete yet!), Java scales very well due to it's VM.  I think Java is
> considered a static-typed language versus dynamically-typed language
> (a la Ruby), whatever differences that means at that level.
> 
> Due to the growing popularity of Ruby and Rails, I would imagine this
> would be of importance.  Pardon if I've missed something (I have
> searched, and am searching) - that being the case, URLs to articles
> would be appreciated.
> 
> I remember a previous gig where we used Java heavily and the scaling
> was pretty linear.  Need more space?  Add another blade and so on...
> probably not the most optimal method - considering their load
> balancing was based on connections not actual system load, etc.
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 

Hmmm...Are you talking about the Derek Silvers CD Baby blog post? Derek 
was talking about Ruby on Rails, not Ruby, and none of his 7 reasons had 
to do with the scalability of RoR.

Or have I missed another Ruby post on Slashdot today?

In any case, this is a Ruby-specific list. There's tons of people on the 
Ruby On Rails mailing list that would love to debate this issue with 
you. See http://www.rubyonrails.com/community.

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