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Can Rails Scale? Twitter Raises Some Questions

Ruby on Rails is one of the hottest open-source technologies around, with many developers calling it the next big thing. And indeed, many new Web sites have been created in Rails -- most notably Twitter. But Rails has long been dogged by accusations that it is too slow and unscalable for enterprise applications, and it didn't help to learn that Twitter might be abandoning Rails, partly or completely, because of these issues. Do Twitter's problems point to an underlying weakness in Rails?


Book Review: Advanced Rails Recipes

Although it's still listed as a beta book on the Pragmatic Bookshelf web site, Mike Clark's Advanced Rails Recipes is finished and getting ready to ship. Thanks to Pragmatic's excellent beta program for books (you get to read in-progress PDFs while the author is finishing the book), I've had plenty of time to work with this one already.

My verdict: the book is a winner, and its very existence says good things about the growing Rails community.



Finding Open Source Rails Projects

One of the big open source success stories of the past few years is Ruby on Rails. You can argue endlessly about the relative merits of this web framework versus others, but it's undeniable that Rails has gotten substantial marketing momentum and is an increasingly easy sell in corporate markets.

But that doesn't mean that Rails developers have turned their back on open source.



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