October Agenda
October 01, 2007
For the October meeting, ChicagoRuby.org is doing something slightly different while still covering multiple levels of Ruby on Rails expertise. Here’s our October 20, 2007 agenda:
- Hobo – an extension that increases the speed of Rails development even further. Victor Hong will present this topic.
- When Rails Fails – What happens when Rails fails, and what can we do about it? We’ll overview a few high-profile Rails failures, and we’ll discuss ways to apply lessons learned to future projects. Drop by the discussion on Google Groups if you’d like to participate before the meeting.
If you have ideas or opinions on either of these topics, come by and be heard! Be sure to RSVP at Meetup.com to get the meeting location and other details. See you there!
What happens when Rails fails, and what can we do about it?
One blogger takes a tongue-in-cheek approach in Why I Switched Back From Rails to Assembler.
On the serious side, there are the cases at Twitter and
CDBaby…
- Twitter, the poster child for Rails scalability, suffered downtime
due to heavy loads a few months ago. Later it was demonstrated that
Rails was not the culprit here. If developers are selling Rails to
their clients, they may be asked about this case.
- CDBaby.com was originally written in PHP. Later, in a high-profile
move, the owner decided to re-write the entire site in Rails. Ten
months into the project he declared Rails a failure and he abandoned
it. It gets better: He then re-wrote the site in PHP (the original
language) in two months.
This could be the start of a very interesting discussion!