Comment Re:Sites Moved to Rails? (Score 1) 385
I wrote a web based game in RoR http://www.forumwarz.com/. It's running of a single dedicated server and it seems to be handling a lot of requests just fine. During peak periods, we've got multiple requests per second and I've never had any complaints about the performance.
Ruby gets a lot of flack for being slow. The truth it, it is slower than other languages. However, it's rarely a bottleneck for web applications. I'm fairly active in the local Rails community and I've yet to meet someone who had to backpeddle on rails for performance reasons.
In most web applications the database is your big bottleneck. Since Rails is process-based you can always buy another server or two and increase your performance that way. Let's face it, servers are cheap and developers are expensive. Rails allows you to get done stuff faster.
Ruby gets a lot of flack for being slow. The truth it, it is slower than other languages. However, it's rarely a bottleneck for web applications. I'm fairly active in the local Rails community and I've yet to meet someone who had to backpeddle on rails for performance reasons.
In most web applications the database is your big bottleneck. Since Rails is process-based you can always buy another server or two and increase your performance that way. Let's face it, servers are cheap and developers are expensive. Rails allows you to get done stuff faster.
