Comments on: Rails Scales (Or Does it?)

By: Landon

Landon — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:51:35 +0000

Thanks for the feedback. I tried to keep it balanced after having read so many unbalanced ones in the past. If you ever have any suggestions or corrections then I would be happy to include them in the article if relevant.

In response to Hongli Lai, at the time of writing there were no good shared hosts available and I only heard bad things about those that existed. I am glad to hear that things have moved along since then and I have included a reference to Dreamhosts in the article, so that people may go and take a look for themselves.

Thanks again,
Landon.

By: vine7

vine7 — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:11:54 +0000

You’re right on with the ‘smugness’ part. It turned me off for years… Overall a very nice, well balanced write-up. Thanks.

By: Hongli Lai

Hongli Lai — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:38:20 +0000

Very nice article. The performance part that you quoted from Antonio is spot-on. Despite Ruby’s lower performance, it’s use is still justified for many projects.

“If you are going to use shared hosting to actually host your application then donâ€™t bother with Rails at all. Rails was never really designed for that intention and it shows but you could happily use a virtual machine.”

Are you sure? Dreamhost switched to Phusion Passenger about 2 months ago, and ever since then I’ve only heard good things from people who have attempted to host Rails apps on Dreamhost.

By: Doug Ramsay

Doug Ramsay — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:28:54 +0000

Excellent article, and a very fair summary of the criticisms of Ruby and Rails, both valid and invalid.

Thanks!