[PLUG-Devel] ruby on rails

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 21:01 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
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> Craig White wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 15:30 -0800, Josh Coffman wrote:
> >> What sort of resources are we talking about to make Ruby/Rails happy? Just a lot of memory? I'm curious how well it would do with a high load and a huge db; since that's the sort of apps I tend to work on. Would you choose Rails for a web app like MySpace or USAirways.com, where there's a lot of intensive operations going on and/or accessing a massive amount of data?
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> >> It would be nice to catch the Ruby meeting in Mesa; tech meetings and conferences always seem to conflict with my schedule for some reason.
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> > There are some Rails systems with massive amounts of data - the issue is
> > going to be the datastore itself, not the middleware. Rails web site
> > lists a number of web hosts using Rails
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> > I am ready to demonstrate what I have accomplished so far (still in the
> > midst of development and will be for quite some time).
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> > Perhaps if there is interest, I could demonstrate it at Plug-Devel
> > meeting
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> I'm interested.  And, we currently don't have a presentation lined up
> for the February 1st PLUG Devel Meeting!  Would you like to present then?
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sure - I'll need an Internet connection (wired/wireless) and I'll bring
my crappy old laptop and may a projector if you don't have one.

Craig