I'd certainly agree that anecdotal evidence appears to point to FastCGI as a real bottleneck. My question, as a Ruby newbie, is whether Ruby (and Rails) are tied to or otherwise dependent on FastCGI. How easy is it to use a different CGI module?
"I also think the language itself might have too much syntax."
The same might be said of English, Latin, French and Russian, but those languages seem to have survived the test of time. The question is whether accepting the burden of a complex syntactical structure offers some significant advantage in dealing with certain types of problems.
I'm exploring Ruby now because I got a taste of building an interactive web site with PHP, MySQL and Javascript in the past year. Taken as a bundle, I didn't much care for the taste.
I'm still new enough in Ruby that I don't have a good overall mental model, but Ruby, in combination with Rails and now {url=http://script.aculo.us/]the Scriptaculous Javascript library[/url] is looking more and more like a useful toolbox to me.
Aside from FastCGI, what other tools in the Ruby/Rails toolbox need to be replaced to produce a dependable, scalable Web platform? What is the likely cost of adopting the replacement? Who's working on that part of the solution?
by Will Parker — Jul 03
"I also think the language itself might have too much syntax."
The same might be said of English, Latin, French and Russian, but those languages seem to have survived the test of time. The question is whether accepting the burden of a complex syntactical structure offers some significant advantage in dealing with certain types of problems.
I'm exploring Ruby now because I got a taste of building an interactive web site with PHP, MySQL and Javascript in the past year. Taken as a bundle, I didn't much care for the taste.
I'm still new enough in Ruby that I don't have a good overall mental model, but Ruby, in combination with Rails and now {url=http://script.aculo.us/]the Scriptaculous Javascript library[/url] is looking more and more like a useful toolbox to me.
Aside from FastCGI, what other tools in the Ruby/Rails toolbox need to be replaced to produce a dependable, scalable Web platform? What is the likely cost of adopting the replacement? Who's working on that part of the solution?