There’s a dark side to Ruby web applications. One thing is clear – real time web applications in Ruby are hurting. We can argue a lot about who it is that allowed themselves to succumb to the dark side. Some argue that Rails are derailing us all and others that socket.io, Faye and node.js are eating away at out sanity, design, performance and feet… but arguing won’t help. As I pointed out in an is
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