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

date posted 17th November 2007 15:45

Hi Paul,
> Hi Gary,
>
> Sorry if it sounded like a personal attack.. far from it. It came out
> from the frustration (not related to this message) of trying for a week
> to convince PHP developers that adding another layout of complexity to
> the system (just for the sake of using yml files) is not a good thing.
> Mea culpa!

Hey no worries.

> Regarding multiple databases, the solution to access multiple databases
> has been around for ages [1].

Hmm, I was under the impression that the solution to that problem came
out of the Twitter debacle and was more recent than that. Thanks for the
heads up. But there's still no getting away from the fact that Ruby (for
the time being) is slow, and that is going to impact scalability. A
problem that I'm sure will get better over time.

> These days Rails is as easy to host as PHP, might be a tiny amount of
> extra work but you have a choice of hosting using various setups:
> FastCGI, Mongrels (although I won't recommend serving static files like
> this), Mongrels balanced with Nginx, Apache, etc. More and more hosting
> companies are offering now Ruby/RoR as standard and, having in mind that
> Rails is relatively new, it's not bad.

Agreed, but most still charge a premium over PHP for doing it. Maybe
'cos its harder, maybe just 'cos Rails is shiny, but at the moment, you
still pay a premium for RoR hosting.

Cheers,
Gary