Every time I talk with people about Ruby on Rails in Switzerland, I almost always get the same comments, no matter what is the background of the person I’m talking to:
Yes but… what about [scalability / performance]? [I'm sure / I've read / I think / I believe / I have dreamt] that Ruby on Rails is not as [fast / scalable / powerful] than [J2EE / .NET / PHP / ASP / CGI / WebObjects / Python / Perl]
It’s very funny indeed, for many reasons:
- None of these comments came from people running something like Facebook, or at least any other site with more than 10000 visits per month;
- None of the people who said something like the above has tried Ruby on Rails, beyond the 15 minute blog thing, which everyone seems to have done.
It seems to me that there’s a problem here. Continue reading