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Had two great comments on my post Open source Scaling Ruby on Rails vs PHP

This is from topyfunky, read his blog on nubyonrails.

“Rails is in the middle of that same conversion right now. New interpreters are being written that will make it much faster. Commercial vendors such as Sun and Microsoft are coming on board. Sites with heavy traffic like the Penny Arcade and A List Apart are using Rails and helping to make it better.”

And TJ also had some very interesting comments,

Seriously, Twitter would have been no better off having been written in PHP. They should have done better database profiling, but didn’t. Sucks to be the most popular site on the ‘Net. Now that they’ve released early and gotten the gold, they need to dig in and customize the hell out of the their DB layer.

Rails gave them the win because it fit their development tastes and helped them get a product up and running fast. Ruby is a clean, fluid language, so tweaking and hacking to optimize for known concerns is straightforward. Twitter has problems, but they’re the problems people should want to have.

I have not got involved in the Ruby/Rails community purely down to time constraints and just keeping up with PHP is enough for me at the moment. I did find an interesting blog about Ruby Benchmarking that is worth checking out (plus now a follow up). All of this has given me a bit of an insight into how Rails is developing. The case for a file-based database for Twitter continues to rage on Thought Palace .

I also had a question from Lada over night asking if I still developed games, the short answer is no. But its a long story of why so I will leave it to a later post.