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
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