"And it doesn't even run well! The framework itself takes on the order of a gigabyte of RAM, making it a poor choice for many of the simple applications they ta

"And it doesn't even run well! The framework itself takes on the order of a gigabyte of RAM, making it a poor choice for many of the simple applications they target. Early rails applications needed to be restarted tens of times a day." Mixing past and present tense. :( Anyways, is there any truth to rails being a memory hog?