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Twitter Reportedly May Abandon Ruby On Rails

Posted by kdawson on from the call-it-a-derailing dept.

Raster Burn writes "According to TechCrunch, Twitter has plans to abandon Ruby on Rails after two years of scalability issues. Candidates to replace Rails are said to be PHP, Java, and Ruby without the Rails framework." The post links a brief comment (at 139 characters, probably a tweet) from Twitter founder Ev Williams saying it ain't so. The comments following the post embody the controversy over whether or not RoR sucks.

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  1. Re:What is Twitter? by revscat · · Score: 5, Informative

    Twitter is a major site, even if you yourself have never heard of it, with many tens of thousands of users. As such it is felt by many to by *the* flagship RoR application. Unfortunately it has suffered from numerous outages, some of these lasting days at a time.

  2. Re:What is Twitter? by LWATCDR · · Score: 4, Informative

    twitter is a microblogging system.
    You can twitter from your cell or PC.
    I think it is one of the most usless things on the face of the earth but it seems popular for some strange reason.

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    See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
  3. According to Penny-Arcade: by spun · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is what Twitter is for.

    --
    - None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
  4. Re:Ruby Can't Scale by ivan256 · · Score: 3, Informative

    They're complaining that the framework can't scale. Not the language.

    Please refrain from commenting when you don't know what you're talking about. The desire to stir up a flamewar is not sufficient justification.

  5. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 4, Informative

    Comment removed based on user account deletion