Re: [Rails] Do I need only Ruby on Rails?

2011-09-01 Thread David Kahn
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene < kurtisrainboltgre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Samuel, > > > > though I learnt they're switching to scala > > They're not actually switching to Scala. They're porting a large > portion of their computational work to the JVM with Scala being on

Re: [Rails] Do I need only Ruby on Rails?

2011-09-01 Thread Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene
Hey Samuel, > though I learnt they're switching to scala They're not actually switching to Scala. They're porting a large portion of their computational work to the JVM with Scala being one of the languages they use to power that. The web interface, last I checked, was still running on Rails :).

[Rails] Do I need only Ruby on Rails?

2011-09-01 Thread Samuel Mensah
Hi, I noticed on a couple of sites and blogs that Twitter is one of the major websites coded in rails (though I learnt they're switching to scala). I'm currently learning ruby as a beginner to later carry on to Ruby on Rails with the sole aim of developing a website similar to twitter...(the projec