Re: FN-FORUM: What's the best development platform for creating Web 2.0 business applications?

date posted 17th November 2007 12:53

Hello Paul,

Paul Ardeleanu wrote:
>
>
> On 16 Nov 2007, at 10:48, Gary Short wrote:
>> but it doesn't scale well (just ask the guys at Twitter) and is
>> difficult /
>> expensive (relatively) to host.
>
> Hi Gary,
>
> I love when people speak without having a faintest idea of what they're
> saying. Did you encounter any problems with scaling?
>

Sigh; thanks for jumping in with a personal attack, before you even
bothered to ask your question.

I stated two things above; one that Rails does not scale well and two,
it is relatively difficult and expensive to host.

Taking my first point; its only recently that Rails has had the ability
to access data that's shared across mulitiple databases - this,
obviously hindered scalling. Also, Rails is a framwork built on Ruby
which, for the time being, is slow, this also hinders scalability.

Now my second point, if you are an ISP look at what you have to do to
get PHP, say, running on your servers; now compare that with what you
have to do to get Rails running. Which is easier? Also, that extra work
comes at a price and so it is (generally) more expensive to host a Rails
solution than a PHP solution.

These are the reasons I stated that rails is both (relatively) hard to
scale and expensive to host. If you wish to post back and explain why
what I have said is not true then go ahead, if you want to post another
attack, whereby you just trot out the fanboy mantra of "if you say Rails
is not perfect then you don't have the faintest idea of what you're
saying" then please, don't bother.

Regards,
Gary
http://www.garyshort.org