Ruby on Rails

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 :).

> 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 project is a bit complex than twitter and better.

I'm glad you're learning Ruby, and looking towards using Rails. I feel
I should point out that any Twitter Clone (and there have been many,
like RStatus) really can only "beat" Twitter by becoming bigger.
That's harder than simply writing a few thousand lines of code (which
they've done as well).

> What I want to find out is if I can build and complete the whole project with only Ruby on Rails as the framework and obviously html/css as the design structure?

To answer your real question: Yes, in fact Twitter did it themselves!
You've even got the advantage of having a more mature Rails. That said
the reason they're replacing large portions of the process with Java
related architecture is because Twitter handles *a massive amount of
data*. It requires quite a lot of power to handle the kind of usage
statistics they bring to the table. As a result they needed a language
that was closer to the mettle, faster, and pretty stable under heavy
loads. This isn't to say that Ruby *or* Rails are unstable, simply not
as fast as Java.

In the end you'll have to become somewhat of a polyglot, or at least
have friends who know languages that do things better than Ruby if you
want to make a "better" Twitter.

Keep on your path though, and remember that the Rails Hotline is a
free and open source of (volunteered) help for Rails developers.

Cheers

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Samuel Mensah <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> 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 project is a bit complex than twitter(P.S. and better)
> but already structured). What I want to find out is if I can build and
> complete the whole project with only Ruby on Rails as the framework and
> obviously html/css as the design structure? I wouldn't want to have a
> lot of languages going into the development of the project.
>
> By the way though, if anyone would like to find the project details and
> might be interested in lending a hand, please do email me at
> sasogeek@yahoo.com
>
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