Why Do They Say Rails Doesn't Scale?If you’re new to Ruby on Rails, you may be new to the old debates (pro and con) about how “Rails doesn’t scale.” You might wonder why people say that, or where it came from. Let’s talk about that. As far as “Rails Doesn’t Scale”, the main arguments go something like: 1) Ruby is slow, often up to 50x slower than C, so the server will eventually collapse. This isn’t actually a scaling argument. But
