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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?