Well objectively, one could say both Ruby and RoR are slow. The first via The Computer Language Benchmarks Game[0], and the latter via TechEmpower Web Framework

Well objectively, one could say both Ruby and RoR are slow. The first via The Computer Language Benchmarks Game[0], and the latter via TechEmpower Web Frameworks Benchmarks[1]. In practice though the database is doing most of the work, most of the time so is typically slower than both. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Computer_Language_Benchmarks_Game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Computer_Language_Benchmar... [1] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks