Comments on: scaling ruby on rails http://hughmcguire.net/2007/04/13/scaling-ruby-on-rails/ at the intersection of technology, philosophy, and politics (and some other things). Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:52:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: rabb5 http://hughmcguire.net/2007/04/13/scaling-ruby-on-rails/#comment-1082 rabb5 Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:14:51 +0000 http://hughmcguire.net/2007/04/13/scaling-ruby-on-rails/#comment-1082 I found another post which is worth looking at that discusses scaling the logger facility, much like twitter does it: <a href="http://www.dotrb.com/2007/8/11/scaling-rails-with-sysloglogger" rel="nofollow">http://www.dotrb.com/2007/8/11/scaling-rails-with-sysloglogger</a> I found another post which is worth looking at that discusses scaling the logger facility, much like twitter does it:

http://www.dotrb.com/2007/8/11/scaling-rails-with-sysloglogger

]]> By: Josh http://hughmcguire.net/2007/04/13/scaling-ruby-on-rails/#comment-372 Josh Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:17:58 +0000 http://hughmcguire.net/2007/04/13/scaling-ruby-on-rails/#comment-372 The Twitter experience was definitely interesting to read especially from the scaling perspective. Current Ruby is relatively slow so the scaling translates into more necessary hardware power. However, Ruby 2.0 will include the YARV virtual machine and be much faster (IBM Toronto software Labs' Antonio Cangiano did a comparison of an early Ruby 2.0 trunk). Here, one should allow some time for Ruby on Rails using Ruby 2.0 to be stabilized. But the future perspectives are still astounding. The best thing with Ruby and RoR currently is the speed of development and the ease of maintainance. That means that it is still wickedly easy to prototype, grow and maintain Web 2.0 apps using RoR. that a major advantage. The Twitter experience was definitely interesting to read especially from the scaling perspective.

Current Ruby is relatively slow so the scaling translates into more necessary hardware power. However, Ruby 2.0 will include the YARV virtual machine and be much faster (IBM Toronto software Labs’ Antonio Cangiano did a comparison of an early Ruby 2.0 trunk). Here, one should allow some time for Ruby on Rails using Ruby 2.0 to be stabilized. But the future perspectives are still astounding.

The best thing with Ruby and RoR currently is the speed of development and the ease of maintainance. That means that it is still wickedly easy to prototype, grow and maintain Web 2.0 apps using RoR. that a major advantage.

]]> By: Hugh http://hughmcguire.net/2007/04/13/scaling-ruby-on-rails/#comment-343 Hugh Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:44:42 +0000 http://hughmcguire.net/2007/04/13/scaling-ruby-on-rails/#comment-343 chris: thanks for the link, i know 37signals, but didn't know they wrote a book. heri: i think you are right, any framework has its ups & downs. but it's good to know where one of rails' downs is...namely: "At this point in time there’s no facility in Rails to talk to more than one database at a time." chris: thanks for the link, i know 37signals, but didn’t know they wrote a book.

heri: i think you are right, any framework has its ups & downs. but it’s good to know where one of rails’ downs is…namely:

“At this point in time there’s no facility in Rails to talk to more than one
database at a time.”

]]> By: heri http://hughmcguire.net/2007/04/13/scaling-ruby-on-rails/#comment-342 heri Fri, 13 Apr 2007 22:30:44 +0000 http://hughmcguire.net/2007/04/13/scaling-ruby-on-rails/#comment-342 i think any technology or framework would have problems handling twitter's usage twitter is an 'extreme' example and most web projects will stumble upon other problems before having a problem with RoR i think any technology or framework would have problems handling twitter’s usage

twitter is an ‘extreme’ example and most web projects will stumble upon other problems before having a problem with RoR

]]> By: Chris Hughes http://hughmcguire.net/2007/04/13/scaling-ruby-on-rails/#comment-341 Chris Hughes Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:21:07 +0000 http://hughmcguire.net/2007/04/13/scaling-ruby-on-rails/#comment-341 The Ruby on Rails people have a great ebook about web app development available here: http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ The Ruby on Rails people have a great ebook about web app development available here: http://gettingreal.37signals.com/

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