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The folks at Basecamp, Github, AirBnb, Hulu, Kickstarter, MyFitnessPal, Twitch, or tons of other Rails-powered sites must not be "real developers" either...

• h1d 8y ago
  Add Discourse as a rails app too which is becoming hugely popular. Also GitLab.
  • hartator 8y ago
    And GitHub and Basecamp and Twitter
    • h1d 8y ago
      OP already states 2 of those and I thought Twitter left rails forever ago.
• smnplk 8y ago
  I wonder to what extent are those 'a rails app'. Those are all huge apps with many microservices I would assume. Don't tell me Twitch backend is all rails.
  • vvillena 8y ago
    While those examples may not be pure Rails apps anymore, it was the way they started. Rails was essential in making all those startups succeed and grow massively.
    • benbristow 8y ago
      Definitely. Rails is great as a starting point. By the time a product/company has started to 'outgrow' it then of course migrating away might make sense and there'll more than likely be a large enough team at the time to do the migration. A bit of YAGNI is clear here.