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Twitter's form looks very Rails'y. I know they used to be on the Rails framework, but are they still?
by wgj 17y ago
Twitter's form looks very Rails'y. I know they used to be on the Rails framework, but are they still?
- teej 17y agoThe use Rails for the user-facing web parts of the site. They use Scala on the backend to process asynchronous tasks.
- gry 17y agoNeither have bearing on passing passwords in the clear. I've made mistakes passing credentials in the clear. I've made mistakes storing them in the clear. I've made mistakes passing them as md5 hashes. I've made mistakes storing them as md5 hashes. I've made mistakes passing them SSL'd and storing them as md5 hashes with a nonce. I've will make mistakes using bcrypt. I mentor developers. It makes me nervous is not being able to go from A to F (in a good way). It also makes me nervous there are so many knowledge gaps along the way.
- aditya 17y agoThis post is about Tumblr, which is PHP I think
- simonw 17y agoYes. They still use Rails (and Ruby) for the majority of their service. They use Scala for the highly concurrent / heavy lifting stuff.