Ruby on Rails and scaling
July 13th, 2005
David Heinemeier Hansson has written a rebuttal to the “it doesn’t scale” argument in defense of Ruby on Rails. It’s a good, concise article that applies equally well to all of the variants of LAMP. If someone is giving you grief about scaling something in Python/Ruby/PHP/Perl or Java without EJB, David’s article and Ryan Tomayko’s earlier article provide good counters so you don’t have to write your own.
Sorry to burst everyone’s bubble, but Ruby on Rails sucks just as bad as Struts does. Learn to code and learn to use patterns and you won’t need these lame crutches to lean on.
Yeah! And why lean on these pansy “high-level languages”, when nothing beats hand tuned assembler for making fast, small code.
You can go ahead and spend three months creating design documentation for what will turn into a 25,000 java web app… the rest of us will just go and get the code running in a week and 1,000 lines since we have frameworks to do a lot of the repetitive tasks.
Yeah, and I will f*king p0wn your s!te in about 10 minutes because you are a dumbass and don’t know what you are doing.