From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-09-24T06:52:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Recent Criticism about Ruby (Scalability, etc.)

Tim Hunter wrote:
> 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.
> 

I recently rejoined the Rails list, mostly because I'm looking for a
Rails application to include in my benchmark suite. "forrie" posted a
similar question on the Rails list and I answered it there.

But ... you're right -- the article on Slashdot is just a pointer to the
O'Reilly Ruby blog entry about the CD Baby migration from PHP to Rails
and back to PHP, with very little about scalability.

So ... while I've got your attention, I'm *still* looking for an open
source Rails application to add to my benchmark suite. So far, what's on
the Rails site in that category is rather out of date, but I think there
are one or two there I can use (rTPlan and Substruct). What I need is an
open source Rails application *with complete installation and
configuration instructions* -- that is, don't assume I wrote the thing
and know how to set up the databases, etc. :)