Discuss: Creating More Using Less Effort with Ruby on Rails
by Michael Slater
- Editorial Comments
22 "Medium-size Sites"
Thomas, I agree that Rails is best suited to a “middle range” of sites, but perhaps we disagree on how wide that range is. The scaling issues have been overblown, and there are some quite sizable Rails sites. YellowPages.com does more than 170 million page views per month; the Facebook app Friends for Sale is doing more than 300 million page views per month. RevolutionHealth.com gives an example of a quite complex site with moderately high traffic.
I recently posted a article on how Friends for Sale has handled the scaling challenges.
posted at 12:35 am on April 30, 2008 by Michael Slater
23 From this designer's perspective, RoR is a dream..
Hey A List Aparters,
I’m an Interaction Designer at ThoughtWorks and we’ve been working with Ruby on Rails A TON lately. The developers here love it, and they’ve worked hard to help it scale to our enterprise clients’ needs.
As a designer, it has been fabulous. Never before have I had so much control over the end product we create. I don’t have to worry about breaking back-end code, and have almost full control over the view. I’ve enjoyed it a lot.
Thanks for the great article, and best of luck to everyone out there.
posted at 10:14 pm on May 13, 2008 by Josh Evnin
24 Untitled
Great introduction to an important concept. I will check out more to see if it is worth the switch.
posted at 04:42 am on May 14, 2008 by abhi G
25 xtremewalls
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posted at 05:12 am on March 20, 2012 by Kathlee Breitha
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21 PHP vs. Rails complexity
Chris, when comparing PHP and Rails, remember that PHP is a language, while Rails is a framework. So there is a lot more to learn with Rails. It is a complex framework, whose goal is to make it simpler to create significant web sites, but you do have to climb the learning curve. If you just want to add some small dynamic capabilities to an otherwise static site, PHP is a better choice.
posted at 12:27 am on April 30, 2008 by Michael Slater