Hi,
I was going to start this off with some analogy on how Ruby is like dating some ‘hottie’ that turns out to be crazy .. but I just couldn’t make it work …
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When Ruby on Rails started to gain some momentum a year or so ago, I decided to take another look at the Ruby language itself along with the Rails web framework.

Before I get to the heart of this article, I have to tell you that I love the elegance of the language … it is fun to use.
But, being a nerd who’s has experienced disappointment in promising new technologies in the past, I decided to dig a little deeper into Ruby and Ruby on Rails before committing to use it in real projects. I did my research … and I’m glad I went with PHP instead.
… Let me just say that this Twitter news, only reinforces my own thinking from a year and a half ago.
Why did Twitter decide to move away from Ruby and Ruby on Rails?
Well according to TechCrunch, the boys at Twitter found that Ruby could not be made to scale.
Update:
Apparently this Techcrunch report was later refuted by the Twitter people. Nonetheless, the point of this article still holds true.
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