Can't believe someone asked that. The anticipation was killing me. Alright here it goes!
It can mean one of two things: FUD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt) as a mechanism of defense, or bad programmers. Yeah, there's no third option. In the first case, it happens when an already established team of programmers who use a different framework (more often than not, ASP.NET or Spring) feel threatened and then they seek the one tangent in the whole idea that, admittedly, can be a problem, as the mean to convince the higher ups NOT to make a switch that could compromise their position. In the latter, it's when framework programmers - people who can write code in the context of a framework but are rather shitty outside of that - do things like loading every record in the database with a Model.all (talking ActiveRecord here) for 3 models. Then the response takes time to render and they think it's the framework's fault when in reality they don't know how to use the tool. This is but one example among an ocean of bad practices that the vast majority of Rails devs do every day. At this point in time, there's likely an answer for almost every Rails problem you could have. It's all a matter of how well informed you are, and how well you can code and understand what's going on with your abstractions. Everything stems from that. @Mark Wotton: EventMachine. And ah yeah, proper coding. On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Joshua Partogi <jpart...@scrum8.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I often hear people say that rails is not scalable. What does it mean > by that exactly? > > Does it mean that: > 1. Rails can not be clustered? > 2. Rails can not handle many concurrent users? > 3. The code gets messy when the apps gets larger? > 4. The performance is not fast? > > I am still confused by these buzzword that I often hear in many > forums. So what are they actually referring when they say rails is not > scalable? > > Thanks for your feedback. > > Kind regards, > Joshua. > > -- > http://twitter.com/scrum8 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- http://crazyhollywood.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
