# Roby on Rails for a large community?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/roby-on-rails-for-a-large-community/112602>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 21, 2007, 9:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/roby-on-rails-for-a-large-community/112602 "2007-08-21T09:53:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![sigma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@sigma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sigma)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 9:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/roby-on-rails-for-a-large-community/112602/1 "2007-08-21T09:53:28Z")

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Hi there

I’ve got the following question to you:  
Is Ruby on Rails the right choice for re-building a large community (a  
few 1000 users)? What about performance of Ruby on Rails? Is it fast  
enoght? (I tried build the community with PRADO (a PHP-Framework)  
before, but the performance wasn’t good enought).

What about the flexibility of ruby on rails?

Thank you for your help

greets

sigma

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**Author:** ![sigma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@sigma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sigma)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 3:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/roby-on-rails-for-a-large-community/112602/2 "2007-08-21T15:28:28Z")

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That’s like asking if a car goes fast enough to get you between two  
cities in one hour.

Depends on the car, depends on the distance between cities, depends on  
the driver.

Depends on the code and server, depends on the community requirements,  
depends on the programmer.

I’m not trying to be flip with you. You’ve just asked as question  
that’s impossible for anyone on this list to answer.

Rails can be fast. Rails can be flexible. But it’s not a magic  
pill. You will run into performance problems and pain points, and  
you’ll have to work through them just like you would with any language  
or framework. Rails is also alive and changing (very much so). So  
“the performance” of Ruby on Rails is a constantly moving benchmark.

HTH,  
Kevin S.

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**Author:** ![sigma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@sigma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sigma)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/roby-on-rails-for-a-large-community/112602/3 "2007-08-21T16:47:50Z")

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Basically what I was going to say.

I also don’t really think a few 1000 users constitutes a large  
community, but that is relative. Twitter has something like 300,000  
users and is built with Rails, maybe that answers part of your  
question?

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**Author:** ![sigma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@sigma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sigma)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 8:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/roby-on-rails-for-a-large-community/112602/4 "2007-08-21T20:27:30Z")

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Marston A. wrote:

> Basically what I was going to say.
> 
> I also don’t really think a few 1000 users constitutes a large  
> community, but that is relative. Twitter has something like 300,000  
> users and is built with Rails, maybe that answers part of your  
> question?

What he is trying to tell you is that you cannot ask this kind of  
question!

Which car is faster BMW or Mercedes? 😛