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Ruby is alive and well. A beautifully written language with an incredible community. Rails only gets stronger and you can look at Shopify for just one example o

Ruby is alive and well. A beautifully written language with an incredible community. Rails only gets stronger and you can look at Shopify for just one example of very large production rails apps. How about Gitlab? There are many more. It's a quick and easy way to iterate a design while getting out of the way. React can just talk to a rails API and boom you're building the MVP with a simple rails new command. One command to generate models. It's just fucking beautiful. And not bloat like node, rack is a few thousand lines. Idk I'm not an expert but it's just a great platform, why the fuck should anyone not use it? Plenty of reasons exist but it's the right tool for a set of jobs.

EduardoBautista 10y ago
Gitlab also uses an insanely high amount of RAM. They currently recommend 4gb of ram. I have seen many other times where Rails apps use a stupid amount of RAM.
aphextron 10y ago
>A beautifully written language with an incredible community. This is what has always killed me about Ruby. Such a wonderful language, community, and tooling held back by a painfully slow and inefficient runtime.
- galfarragem 10y ago
  > tooling held back by a painfully slow and inefficient runtime. I really hope that mruby or crystal will solve that problem.
- ksec 10y ago
  I am hoping TruffleRuby, which is looking more like a drop in replacement for MRI Ruby, would solve all these problem. It will still uses LOT of memory, but memory for most is cheap these days. Even it it uses double the memory of MRI and gain 10x the processing performance it is still a net 5x win.