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Discussion on: Rails gets out of the way when you need that most.

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Eric The Coder

I run a small business that hope to be big one day. We choose Rails for the development speed. The competition is so strong and we need something to start fast and right. Rails is just that. We dont care that in 5 years we will have reach the point that we have so many transactions that we need a rewrite in another tech. If we dont deliver now, we would not be there in 5 years anyway!

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Linuxander

Rails 6 evolved much from Rails 2, so who knows what will happen in 5 years... Anyway, Rails is not known as fast framework, but it can handle everything if you design application in that way... So in future you will rewrite that code and use it with some other technologies maybe, and that's it. I am big fan of Ruby (and RoR), and the only downside I found is that I must get dedicated server, not VPS like for PHP apps. But when you get quality server with high amount of RAM, business can be started really fast.

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bravemaster619

Most servers are VPS nowadays. VPS does not have any problem with RoR. I think what you're meant to say is shared hosting. Shared hosting of WP.

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Linuxander

Yea my mistake, wanted to say shared server :)