# Web developement

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-developement/112299>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 17, 2007, 8:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-developement/112299 "2007-08-17T08:24:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![jeyaprabhuj](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@jeyaprabhuj](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeyaprabhuj)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2007, 8:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-developement/112299/1 "2007-08-17T08:24:24Z")

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Hi guys,

I am about to develope a web application which will have many hits per  
sec.

Decided to use linux , ruby , ajax and DB2 express edtion .

I need to implement a distributed environment which is scalable i. SOA  
based .

Is my choice for RUBY correct i…e can i develope services in ruby ?

what webserver can i use ?

Take into consideration i am new to ruby . I am a .net developer but  
wanted to imnplement my web in open source s/w .

thx in advnace

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**Author:** ![jeyaprabhuj](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@jeyaprabhuj](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeyaprabhuj)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2007, 10:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-developement/112299/2 "2007-08-17T10:46:07Z")

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> I need to implement a distributed environment which is scalable i. SOA  
> based .

caboose published an interesting article on scaling up a rails app  
recently, it might give you some insight :

[http://blog.caboo.se/articles/2007/7/29/scale-rails-from-one-box-to-three-four-and-five](http://blog.caboo.se/articles/2007/7/29/scale-rails-from-one-box-to-three-four-and-five)

> what webserver can i use ?

Twitter is a rails app that handles hundreds of requests per second.  
Some insights into their scaling issues are covered in this presentation  
:

> **[Scaling Twitter](https://www.slideshare.net/Blaine/scaling-twitter)**
>
> Big Bird. (scaling twitter) Rails Scales. (but not out of the box) First, Some Facts • 600 requests per second. Growing fast. • 180 Rails Instances (Mongre...

Good luck !

Chris

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**Author:** ![jeyaprabhuj](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@jeyaprabhuj](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeyaprabhuj)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2007, 3:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-developement/112299/3 "2007-08-17T15:53:53Z")

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Ambrose Jeyaprabhuj wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> I am about to develope a web application which will have many hits per  
> sec.
> 
> Decided to use linux , ruby , ajax and DB2 express edtion .

I’m not familiar with DB2 Express Edition and whether or not it works  
with Rails, but so far you’re talking the Rails language.

> I need to implement a distributed environment which is scalable i. SOA  
> based .
> 
> Is my choice for RUBY correct i…e can i develope services in ruby ?

Absolutely! Head over to the Rails list!

> what webserver can i use ?

The webserver of choice for Ruby/Rails apps is probably Mongrel.

> Take into consideration i am new to ruby . I am a .net developer but  
> wanted to imnplement my web in open source s/w .

Have you looked at “mono”? It’s an open source set of “.Net” tools.

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**Author:** ![jeyaprabhuj](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@jeyaprabhuj](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeyaprabhuj)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2007, 4:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-developement/112299/4 "2007-08-17T16:04:55Z")

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Another thing you can do is check out IronRuby, the .NET  
implementation of Ruby (put very succinctly). Then you can build web  
services and such the .NET way, but using Ruby as the source language.  
Some of the folks with whom I’ve discussed IronRuby plan to use it as  
a “bridge” between their existing .NET skills and their future plans  
for RoR.

Just an idea.

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**Author:** ![jeyaprabhuj](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@jeyaprabhuj](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeyaprabhuj)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 3:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-developement/112299/5 "2007-08-18T03:31:07Z")

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On 8/17/07, Rob S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Another thing you can do is check out IronRuby,

A bit too early for that.