Comparing Node.js to Ruby on Rails is as useful as comparing apples to oranges. Node.js is not a web framework. Node.js has a wonderful paradigm for evented p

Comparing Node.js to Ruby on Rails is as useful as comparing apples to oranges. Node.js is not a web framework. Node.js has a wonderful paradigm for evented programming, but that does not mean you can not also have evented programming with Ruby or Rails. Take a look at http://github.com/igrigorik/async-rails http://github.com/igrigorik/async-rails or things related to http://github.com/eventmachine/eventmachine http://github.com/eventmachine/eventmachine