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this was not particularly hard to predict, but twitter looks to abandon rails for scalability problems. despite of this, there are _still_ some clueless people out there that wont stop preaching that ruby on rails is going to be ‘the next big thing’ (for years now). i really don´t get it.

Finally, one guy seeing Ruby for what it is: a ‘Scripting Language’: The middle ground is really where Ruby belongs, where it flourishes. It’s hardly a general-purpose language, so it could never replace Java and company. With that said, it’s far easier to write an incremental backup script in Ruby than in Java. And while [...]

If you’re interested in RoR, you’ll sure have already read that. I must say, to me this list of reasons is incomplete, but obviously a good read for those following the buzz and belief that RoR is the ‘golden hammer’ or ‘silver bullet’. 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails’