[Rails] Re: Frustrated with RoR environment splintering

[Matthew Palmer]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 10:20:15AM -0800, news.gmane,org wrote:
> Its very unlikely I would ever get a contract to work on any webserver 
> except Apache, so it would seem logicaly to focus all our efforts to make 
> Apache the 'production environment of record' for RoR.

"It's very unlikely I would ever get a contract to work on any language
except PHP, so it would seem logical to focus all our efforts to make PHP
the 'production language of record' for PoR."

You could also perform a very similar transformation by OS.

The difficulty is that what seems absolute and completely beyond doubt for
you isn't necessarily what the rest of the world sees.  You can take Ruby
yourself as an example there -- in Japan, apparently, it's has insane
popularity.  Until Rails (and to a lesser extent the Prags) came along,
nobody in the English-speaking world had ever really heard of it or used it
(it rated a mention at the same level as say SmallTalk or OCaml).  It would
no doubt have seemed ridiculous to many to base a web framework like Rails
on such a poorly-supported language -- and yet, here we all are, and Ruby
brings some fairly unique features to the table to enable some of Rails'
coolest features.

Give it a year and you might just be able to switch a few nouns around in
the above paragraph to describe the Rails hosting landscape.  If Rails
prematurely "settles" on one solution, then we'll never know if environment
X is insanely better for Rails deployment.  I've switched a lot of stuff to
lighty (both Rails and otherwise) from being a die-hard Apacheite, and
everyone here is loving it.  I'm keeping an eye on Mongrel, too, as it looks
like it could do good things.

- Matt


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