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One of my concerns about it was how many hosts are available. Last night I did quick search and found out Ruby on Rails now has many many hosts, and it has been integrated into the cPanel as well. You can view a full list here of Ruby on Rails hosts. And to my surprise as well, my HostGator have already added support for it.

Full details about how to use Ruby on Rails with Hostgator through SSH is available here. Guess that rules out one of the reasons why I thought PHP Symfony would be easier to manage. The quest continues however as to which one is better. I started to like Ruby on Rails, but general comment is that Ruby by nature is slower than PHP. Then I came across the PHP Symfony framework which is also amazing, cleaner in certain aspects like the syntax, class files and database creation. However it is still new, and there is the CakePHP competitor for it. On the other hand, Ruby on Rails seems to be expanding fast, I would like to be among the people who start with it, and it’s heavily pushed by the community, already many high quality books are published about it. So I am a bit inclined to the RoR road. Any second opinion and discussion is welcome on this.

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I never thought Mac Ads against Vista will get so popular and have so many clones. Ruby on Rails have started something quite similar against Java and PHP. Honestly, despite being a Java fan, the commercial is quite true. I’ve learned Java is good for enterprise heavy applications, but for light or middle weight applications that require on going modification, I would never recommend it. Ruby on Rails, or possibly PHP with Symphony can do a lot better.

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This is a nice interview with one of the developers of Twitter, talking about the issues they face with Ruby on Rails when it reaches peak usage. Apparently the site is getting around 11,000 hits a second on peak times, and since Rails cannot talk to more than one database at a time, this is causing big time delay for end user. This does not mean we should all keep away from Ruby on Rails, as it a great potential in cutting down development cycles, and enforcing the MVC. Unless you are planning of building a site that will receive this massive hit, I guess RoR would do just fine.

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37signals is a privately-held company which was established back in 1999. The company adapted Ruby language, implemented their own framework for their projects, released the framework to public under the name Ruby On Rails and helped increase public awareness of the Ruby potentials.

37signals have launched three very promising online AJAX based collaboration applications, namely Campfire for real time group chatting and file sharing, Basecamp for online project collaboration and communication, and Backpack to organize your to-dos, notes, schedules and tasks online. All these provide FREE limited user access, and for more features and unlimited usage there is a subscription fee. Site claims over 1 million registered users in their system. The 37signals site is ranked among the first 3,000 sites on Alexa as well.
Take sometime to go through the tour or signup for FREE.

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