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This is just not true. There are several multi-Billion dollar public companies with millions of users and thousands of employees built on Rails. In fact, the p
by chrischattin 5y ago
This is just not true. There are several multi-Billion dollar public companies with millions of users and thousands of employees built on Rails.
In fact, the philosophy of convention over configuration et all makes Rails MORE scalable and easier to onboard new people than anything else out there that I’ve seen.
- jack_riminton 5y agoI agree, the convention means there are very straight-forwarded places to look for things I recently worked on a Rails project for someone who didn't like to create scaffolds, models or controllers for small things, thinking that it would add to the bloat. But conceptually it makes everything 10x times easier and faster to find and understand
- oblio 5y agoWell, you'd better not check what happened to all those Rails apps when those companies grew. There are soooo many blogs about migrating away from Ruby, adopting Go, Scala, whatever statically typed thing. There's a reason even Ruby is getting a proper static type system.
- wavesplash 5y agoUm, really? Why are unicorns like Shopify or Github are still using Rails if that's the norm?
- golergka 5y agoThe same reason Facebook uses php: that's what they started with and it's prohibitively complex, expensive and risky to change at their scale.
- joelbluminator 5y agoShopify is not a unicorn...sorry for nitpicking. Its a publicly traded company worth 210 billion dollars. It used to be a unicorn a long time ago.
- oblio 5y agoNow that I think of it, are there any major startups launched post Rails glory days? Some time around and before Rails 4.0, so 2013. Almost all the major former startups that I could find are from 2010 or earlier.
- montblanc 5y agoDepends on your definition of major. For a company to become a unicorn it usually takes 7 years (not sure on the number but it keeps changing). So many companies formed in 2015,16...+ aren't there still. Looking in Linkedin for Rails jobs there are a lot, not all of them are old companies. Gitlab is a very famous name(2014) but it too IPO'ed so it's not a startup anymore.
- oblio 5y agoGitlab definitely counts ;-)
- aantix 5y agoRoR is the most popular choice with Y-Combinator companies. Its productivity is simply hard to beat. Most of these companies are unicorns or public. https://spreecommerce.org/ruby-on-rails-most-popular-among-top-y-combinator-companies/ https://spreecommerce.org/ruby-on-rails-most-popular-among-t...
- oblio 5y agoDropbox literally hired Guido for a while and sponsored a performance oriented fork of Python. I doubt they can be listed as a Rails success story.
- ksec 5y agoI dont think Dropbox even use Ruby. They have been a Python shop since day one? Stripe doesn't use Rails either. That was a pretty bad article. And it is somehow from Spree.