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Large site: use Ruby on Rails or PHP framework?

Discussion in 'Ruby' started by mudanoman, Jan 26, 2007.

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    Which code makes more sense for a large scale web project - ruby on rails or PHP?
     
    mudanoman, Jan 26, 2007 IP
  2. smallbuzz

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    How large?
     
    smallbuzz, Jan 26, 2007 IP
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    Both make sense. It depends on your experience / desire to try something new.

    Personally, if given a blank sheet of paper I think I'd go with R on R simply as it requires less coding. However, if time was a factor I'd go for PHP as I am experienced with it already.

    Also hosting is a factor - not all hosts yet support R / R on R.
     
    bochgoch, Jan 27, 2007 IP
  4. mudanoman

    mudanoman Guest

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    20k + users. 5-10 Million nodes.

    What makes sense in terms of scalability?
     
    mudanoman, Jan 27, 2007 IP
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    I'd use PHP personally - but thats just because I love PHP and from experience know it can handle large-scale apps, and is very flexible/scalable.
     
    ccoonen, Jan 28, 2007 IP
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    Go with Ruby on Rails. RoR is built for scalability, those 'slow benchmarks' don't really mean anything to RoR especially since that stuff was going around a couple years ago during it's infancy. It's just getting stronger and stronger, and I'm betting it's heading towards the direction of becoming a dominant player more so than php.
     
    DFischer, Jan 29, 2007 IP
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    DHH ( The creator of Rails ) posted about scalablitiy on his blog which might interest you, ( full post here) :

    Any language can scale if the site is designed properly.
     
    Eadz, Jan 31, 2007 IP
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    check cakephp.org
    I have used it for some projects and i am very happy with it.
     
    aplus, Feb 2, 2007 IP
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    get the best of both worlds (MVC + PHP) by using FUSE: http://www.phpfuse.net :)
     
    jim_keller, Feb 19, 2008 IP
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    Would have thought that they have decided by now given the post was over a year ago
     
    AstarothSolutions, Feb 20, 2008 IP