274 engineers on Hacker News describe using Ruby on Rails first-hand: 65 endorse it, 36 regret it, 18 are mixed.
“Rails dev here, still using it, still plan on using it, use agents”
endorse · production · status_quo69 · 2026-09-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“So where I work we use amongst other things Rails. We literally save like 20 seconds in some cases”
endorse · production · Kaliboy · 2026-06-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Where I work we run Rails since the time before time... Horrible for our hundreds of controllers”
mixed · production · Kaliboy · 2026-06-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The third time, we used Ruby on Rails, which solved most of the problems we had on the first project”
endorse · production · kragen · 2025-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Upgrades since version 5 have been much easier.”
endorse · production · dudeinjapan · 2025-01-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Rails is still my first choice for personal development (though I've been using Next.js more often recently).”
endorse · personal · tan-z-tan · 2024-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Here at Swivel we use the ENTIRE rails stack from Hotwire to Kamal and it is so simple and easy to maintain and deploy.”
endorse · production · jmarchello · 2024-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've used them both in production enough to feel qualified to counter these. Both are excellent frameworks, with no clear standout IMO.”
endorse · production · ropable · 2024-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'd pick Rails over Django any time for every single feature.”
endorse · production · pmontra · 2024-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The worst kind of projects (with lots of pain and regret) have been either JS-based, mis-used framework projects (including rails!) or Salesforce setups.”
regret · production · anonyfox · 2024-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Every new form we build is just Rails partials with helpers. No APIs, all server-rendered. It works very well.”
endorse · production · 3 yr · hmeh · 2024-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've found most of the Rails applications I've come across somewhat hard to learn and debug.”
regret · production · cess11 · 2024-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Personally I absolutely hate it, and regret taking a job in it.”
regret · production · cloverich · 2024-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I made the swap you're contemplating with similar reservations and absolutely regret it. Rails is definitely great but IME it appeals to a particular kind of developer”
mixed · production · cloverich · 2024-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been doing Ruby on Rails for ~14 years but ~10 years ago I was confused and I picked up Nodejs”
endorse · production · 14 yr · BilalBudhani · 2024-10-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My approach of book-based learning worked great for learning Ruby and Rails”
endorse · personal · freedomben · 2024-04-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was just on a good 'ole Ruby on Rails monolith.”
endorse · production · neya · 2024-03-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Rails has really poor startup time due to loading all codepaths. We switched to Django”
regret · production · irjustin · 2024-01-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using both on/off for the last 15 years... I absolutely hate them for writing big apps.”
regret · production · 15 yr · whstl · 2023-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have upgrade to 7.1 already and have a mobile app in production that is built with Turbo Native.”
endorse · production · mosselman · 2023-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've gotta say, I just don't see the issues you name in production all that often. It's a problem, but it's not a big problem.”
mixed · production · endlessvoid94 · 2022-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“there are a lot of very frustrating bits about Fresh that worked a lot nicer in i.e. Rails.”
endorse · personal · TranquilMarmot · 2022-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I work in Rails and Elixir. Feedback is super fast.”
endorse · production · john_the_writer · 2022-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have used rails in production for a company with decent traffic. It's doable but it requires a lot of optimizations”
mixed · production · 8ytecoder · 2022-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Maintenance is a complete nightmare. Still stuck on rails 4 because the time I upgraded it to 4 took two whole weeks”
regret · personal · darksaints · 2022-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Coming from the Ruby/Rails world where you have to cap deploy/bundle etc to push to a production server and hoping nothing breaks on dependancies”
regret · production · noaheverett · 2022-10-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“can sustain nearly 400 RPS through a Rails app on a single Performance-L Heroku dyno without a sweat”
endorse · production · wlll · 2022-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Once we were developing with Rails, we found v1 could be done in a month or even less.”
endorse · production · adamwiggins · 2022-05-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“rebuild Ruby/Rails/PHP/Python apps that don't scale anymore”
regret · production · mrdoops · 2021-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've personally written real-time back-of-house order-tracking with rails and postgres pubsub (no redis!)”
endorse · production · tomc1985 · 2021-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“been using Rails for over a decade and it makes my day job so, so, so pleasant”
endorse · production · 10 yr · rubyist5eva · 2021-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I would have said that was one of the stacks' greatest strengths, to keep that sorted out for you.”
endorse · production · 12 yr · TheRealDunkirk · 2021-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I haven't used Rails heavily since v3/v4... Rails has a lot of nice stuff baked in though.”
endorse · personal · slantyyz · 2021-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been doing Ruby (and Rails) about 5 to 6 years of the last 10 years”
endorse · production · 5 yr · johntdaly · 2021-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we replaced each of the hundred+ rails boxes per service with 2 Scala instances per service”
regret · production · mpweiher · 2021-05-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've had so many extremely-bad experiences with ongoing Rails projects that I hope never to touch one again.”
regret · production · intergalplan · 2021-04-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Rails is much less great in v6, where documentation is shoddy, splintered across versions”
regret · production · horsawlarway · 2021-01-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It does have the memory problem, but I have never seen the server crash outright as a result of an exception”
mixed · production · pentium166 · 2020-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Rails requires a lot more effort to keep a team in sync than an equivalently sized codebase in a typed language.”
regret · production · horsawlarway · 2020-11-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Rails makes it really easy to do something 10 different ways to get the same result.”
mixed · production · 10 yr · joshmn · 2020-11-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have a rails app I wrote in 2011, I occasionally make fixes, update gems etc. No stress.”
endorse · production · 9 yr · rileytg · 2020-07-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I appreciate Rails for all the built-in stuff it provides but anything outside of that, as time goes on you're getting more and more likely to end support.”
endorse · production · freehunter · 2019-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Rails is the API layer, (which lets Rails do authentication, authorization, and a number of other things that Rails does well)”
endorse · production · TheTaytay · 2019-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Rails or Express for the backend... I'll usually chose Rails over Express 90% of the time.”
endorse · production · jypepin · 2019-01-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For building SaaS product i think you should choose Rails. It takes only few minutes to creare subscription billling, team accounts, invoice etc.. functionality.”
endorse · production · InGodsName · 2018-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run about 12 Rails applications in production in various sizes, about half of them being relatively large.”
endorse · production · scient · 2018-09-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I wouldn't recommend it today. We replaced our monolithic Rails web app with 20+ microservices.”
regret · production · Zimbleton · 2018-09-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Rails is cluncky and most of the devs I worked with didn't know how anything works 'under the hood'.”
regret · production · rublev · 2018-04-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I just don't like how it does things I don't want it to do, because when I'm using rails + simple javascript”
mixed · production · cocktailpeanuts · 2017-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we migrated away from a Rails codebase and it was not fun. The Rails code was extremely convoluted and encourages metaprogramming in a way that is very un-typed.”
regret · production · eximius · 2017-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“But it's definitely true that rails culture doesn't make itself easy to manage.”
mixed · production · quesera · 2017-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Every time we bumped a Rails version we broke thousands of tests. Even after months of meticulous work we had only managed to upgrade 3 of the 4 services”
regret · production · slimed · 2017-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use both in production. Rails is awesome. ... I also felt - after some years - constrained by the style of modularization Rails enforces”
mixed · production · brandonmenc · 2017-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's is easier to find developer for Rails and Vue.js”
endorse · production · kimjongman · 2017-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This was possible in Ruby/Rails, and ultra easy to do in Phoenix/Elixir”
endorse · personal · neya · 2017-07-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“rails cold start times are so slow on their own that you won't want to 'docker run' your commands.”
regret · personal · dcosson · 2017-07-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“wasted $3 million and 5 years on a Ruby On Rails application which was universally hated by the staff”
regret · production · 5 yr · lisa_henderson · 2017-07-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Rails has been among the least welcoming stacks I've ever had the displeasure to use - and... 'Rails: never again'”
regret · production · 1 yr · throwanem · 2017-01-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've noticed in Rails that A LOT of major refactoring and functionality has been added via minor bumps that... often breaks custom implementations”
regret · personal · dvdhnt · 2016-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Rails because I've been using it for a lonnnng time.”
endorse · personal · equalarrow · 2016-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Fullish-er stack person with a few things living in production today (one of which does 500k uniques/month). Ruby/Rails is my go-to.”
endorse · production · joshmn · 2016-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My team was awesome, and most of them had never used Rails before but were pleased with how much more it gave them.”
endorse · production · halostatue · 2016-10-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've used both Rails and Laravel in production, and while I equally love both, the amount of hassles you face with rails in prod is an order of magnitude more.”
mixed · production · captn3m0 · 2016-10-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've replaced our Rails API with 64 unicorns to just 1 Kemal process and it's not even breaking any sweat while consuming nearly 100x less resource”
regret · production · sdogruyol · 2016-08-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we had a couple of Rails apps that, after a couple of months of painful deployment and uptime teething, we moved to JRuby”
regret · production · 2 yr · mcguire · 2016-05-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have found that ruby/rails is our fastest and happiest combination. ... it Just Works (tm)”
endorse · production · stcredzero · 2016-05-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've run through PHP, Rails, Node, Python (Django) and lately Go... ruby/rails is our fastest and happiest combination.”
endorse · production · conorh · 2016-05-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We build packages of Rails apps and dependencies quite happily.”
endorse · production · dwb · 2015-07-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the regular (Rails) auto reload works perfectly”
endorse · production · viktorbenei · 2015-07-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“So I've been using Rails in production for a few years now, and its pretty good.”
endorse · production · 3 yr · ch4s3 · 2015-06-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Rails since 1.1 or so.”
endorse · production · 9 yr · damoncali · 2015-06-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the last product I shipped was a Rails app... regret not just using Rails.”
endorse · production · tptacek · 2015-04-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We don't use it at work so I can't say I've done anything at scale, but I was very happy with it making this internal-ish website for work”
endorse · personal · MaxGabriel · 2014-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I headed up in the Rails 3 era to very aggressively attempt to reduce the number of encoding-related problems in Rails”
mixed · production · wycats · 2014-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using rails for many years now and I'm sad to say I'm leaving it behind in my current/new project”
endorse · production · poppup · 2014-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm shifting back to Rails and the open web. It's a much nicer developer ecosystem and potential client pool.”
endorse · production · cageface · 2014-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The rails app it self pretty much worked.”
endorse · production · noahc · 2014-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“If I never again see another huge Rails 2.3 app with undeclared dependencies on 30 dodgy abandoned gems, I'll be a happy programmer.”
regret · production · ekidd · 2014-07-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it wasn't reflected anywhere in the generated schema. So I was worried that future developers wouldn't realize”
regret · production · losvedir · 2013-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use Rails for the heavy lifting, registration, payments, etc (lots of complex stuff), and we use Wordpress to allow our client to easily create beautiful things.”
endorse · production · jcutrell · 2013-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we're already running beta1 in production for Basecamp, so you know it's been taking a good beating.”
mixed · production · danso · 2013-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We write our entire V1 in Rails... Go outperforms Rails by a huge margin.”
mixed · production · neya · 2013-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This is exactly why I started to use rails recently... running rails in production mode”
endorse · production · rartichoke · 2013-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've encountered these issues in both contexts - notably a few years ago when I got very excited about Rails.”
regret · production · thenomad · 2013-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I started using Rails in professional work in late 2005. That turned out to be a good decision.”
endorse · production · 8 yr · harrylove · 2013-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Rails makes it really easy to do nice API's without a whole lot of boilerplate.”
endorse · production · dham · 2013-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been doing some side projects in it for ~2 years and definitely don't regret it.”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · binofbread · 2013-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was more productive in the other two but performance and scaling were far easier on node.”
mixed · production · jaegerpicker · 2013-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“there's so much magic in the Rails asset pipeline that it's not uncommon to turn up bugs where tables don't exist”
regret · production · codebeaker · 2013-10-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Even when everything is setup, the asset compilation churns the disks and takes way too much cpu. I would rather do that on my local machine than disrupt the production server.”
regret · production · irahul · 2013-10-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Rails 3 is just bulky and cumbersome. I felt like for the most part that I was wading through thick water”
regret · production · czbond · 2013-08-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At my employer (Square) we run many of our Rails apps in thread safe mode on top of JRuby, providing parallel request processing across multiple cores”
endorse · production · bascule · 2013-08-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Earlier this year our REE -> 1.9.3 upgrade took about a month and a half... it's just very hard to do something at the scale that we're at”
mixed · production · johnbellone · 2013-06-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run rails since 2006, we got large and became a bank.”
endorse · production · 7 yr · eduardordm · 2013-06-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Rails looked like the best option for a variety of reasons.”
mixed · production · nirvdrum · 2013-06-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our site is developed in Ruby on Rails, with average response times from in the 150ms range.”
endorse · production · foz · 2013-02-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I come from a rails background but a Rails API has some up and downs. ... I still use Rails for some sites”
mixed · production · imothee · 2012-10-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We were first uploading directly to the Rails backend but it eventually killed our frontends.”
regret · production · mickeyben · 2012-09-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“my CodeIgniter apps on slower servers with little-to-no deliberate optimization are faster than my Rails apps.”
regret · production · evdawg · 2011-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Rails, Coffee Script, and even more importantly - Twitter's Bootstrap are tools we use to express our products in a higher domain language.”
endorse · production · radagaisus · 2011-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I can write code clearer and faster than I do at work.”
endorse · personal · brandoncordell · 2011-11-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“With Rails in my tool belt it's very easy for me to get something up quickly that can be used”
endorse · production · kerryfalk · 2011-09-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“scaling the PHP side is almost trivial compared to the rails side.”
regret · production · ericd · 2011-08-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I don't see a real problem with the way Rails does things because it's "by default"... The more I work with Rails building out a JSON API”
endorse · production · bphogan · 2011-07-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have several apps in production I haven't touch in over a year.”
endorse · production · rapind · 2011-06-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used rails in a few projects, and performance was so painful even on pretty good hardware that I said never again.”
regret · personal · uriel · 2011-05-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we built the entire backend of our iPhone app on ROR... The amount of time it saves you as compared to any other language is nothing short of mind blowing.”
endorse · production · nishantpant · 2011-02-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Ruby on Rails 3: It's much more succinct than Rails 2.”
endorse · production · kingnothing · 2010-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using ruby (and rails) for 2 years and I am absolutely addicted to it.”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · epochwolf · 2010-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using ruby (and rails)... I am absolutely addicted to it.”
endorse · personal · JonnieCache · 2010-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it was just a pain in the ass to maintain the rails-based infrastructure, in both Debian and CentOS”
mixed · production · zppx · 2010-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Since working in Rails, have had at least 2-3 experiences on the team with truncated/dropped tables or mangled data in production”
regret · production · devmonk · 2010-11-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I tried prototyping in RoR first, but even simple test requests ended up taking minutes to answer.”
regret · personal · cskau · 2010-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“switching to Ruby on Rails to write AdGrok”
endorse · production · mceachen · 2010-09-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been working with Rails since version 0.7.”
endorse · production · bradleyland · 2010-09-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“when your codebase becomes large, then it's a mess to support”
regret · production · piramida · 2010-08-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Because Rails is setup to be run in a blocking fashion my example will only be able to serve 1 request per second.”
regret · production · aarongough · 2010-06-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use Java primarily in my day job, but usually RoR in my side projects”
endorse · personal · shiftb · 2010-05-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was routinely shocked at how stupidly easy it was to do the same things I had been doing in Java... in a fraction of the time.”
endorse · personal · patio11 · 2010-05-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For our Rails app we replaced most of our Hotwired/Turbo with HTMX.”
neutral · production · dajonker · 2026-08-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Several years ago we migrated from an in house Ruby on Rails solution to Salesforce.”
neutral · production · pbronez · 2026-02-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“my other customer using Rails and Sidekiq has no problems and they run many more jobs.”
neutral · production · pmontra · 2025-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Also upgraded rails 4 app to rails 8 over a few days.”
neutral · production · wordofx · 2025-09-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“our rails respository was due to a function in git bundle create”
neutral · production · hliyan · 2025-06-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Ported a Rails task that took ~9 hours to Crystal”
neutral · production · prh8 · 2025-04-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“my strategy for running larger bits of ad hoc code on the ruby/rails console is to”
neutral · production · quesera · 2025-01-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use it at work with a Rails backend”
neutral · production · 0xblinq · 2024-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When we moved to Rails server rendering, I even experimented with rendering React components from the Rails server.”
neutral · production · hmeh · 2024-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“To satiate curiosity, I made a fresh rails app and it has 9141023 characters”
neutral · personal · nomilk · 2024-06-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've built my own websites running on NextJS, Django, Rails, Jekyll, and Hugo”
neutral · personal · abhiyerra · 2024-03-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“a Rails expert with Typescript experience, who built large CI/CD pipelines”
neutral · production · berkes · 2024-02-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When it's time to upgrade Rails, we can upgrade one application. This is 1/20th of our Rails code.”
neutral · production · hmeh · 2023-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Writing rails api with a nextjs ui, anyone got any suggestions on alternative paths i should take?”
neutral · production · verelo · 2023-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Almost all of the traditional issues one encounters when running a Rails app in production vanish when you build on top of Jets”
neutral · production · sam0x17 · 2023-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“a middleware (RoR, C#, Rust), nginx ingress and cert-manager”
neutral · production · b7we5b7a · 2023-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Last year we replaced Hotwire in a medium size Rails app with Inertia”
neutral · production · 0xblinq · 2023-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“going from PHP, ASP, .NET, RoR, clojure, Python then JavaScript for the longest”
neutral · production · meiraleal · 2023-11-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've used this gem to remove a Rails Model that was heavily tangled and used in production.”
neutral · production · drwl · 2023-11-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been using Rails for 10+ years - everything we build is on top of Rails”
neutral · production · 10 yr · tonyennis · 2023-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've done individual rails minor version upgrades that took 100 PRs of pre-work.”
neutral · production · stevepike · 2023-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“since we run on rails all we needed was the ruby SDK”
neutral · production · Syntaf · 2023-07-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“was using ruby on rails & active merchant, and some version change in ActiveMerchant switched from cents to dollars”
neutral · production · jacobn · 2022-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“internally, we switched to Ruby on Rails for the ecommerce platform we built.”
neutral · production · leviathant · 2022-11-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've spent most of my 12 years or so of Rails development working on Heroku”
neutral · production · 12 yr · geoffharcourt · 2022-10-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we rewrote our Rails 3 app to Angular.”
neutral · production · elt · 2022-08-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run a few largish rails apps.”
neutral · production · efxhoy · 2022-08-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We migrated ToolJet's backend from Rails to node after the beta launch last year.”
neutral · production · navaneethpk · 2022-07-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This `Discardable` concern is automatically added to every single soft-deletable model”
neutral · production · viiralvx · 2022-07-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In the Rails demo I made for Deployment from Scratch the Ruby bits are not very long, nor hard.”
neutral · personal · strzibny · 2021-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My team has been using it in a Rails app and it's a joy to work with.”
neutral · production · janglezz · 2021-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The video designing process is a React app that leverages a Ruby on Rails based backend API.”
neutral · production · rememberlenny · 2021-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I tried to use it in production for a small project where I offloaded some tasks from Rails into Crystal small programs.”
neutral · production · gls2ro · 2021-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“mostly boring CRUD Rails apps”
neutral · production · JohnBooty · 2021-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The standard setup (at least for Rails, in my experience) is that the web server and background job processor will have the same dependencies”
neutral · production · pentium166 · 2021-06-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“with basically this system for both a rails app and about 20 other go apps.”
neutral · production · grogenaut · 2021-04-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For my Rails side project, figured I would use Beanstalk instead of Heroku”
neutral · personal · runako · 2021-03-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have a Rails app that uses Puma with MySQL, but so far single threaded”
neutral · production · pqdbr · 2021-01-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“haven't done any rails since 2009.”
neutral · production · cortesoft · 2020-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the hard-won "best practices" I had discovered in Ruby/Rails ended up looking a lot like second-rate functional programming.”
neutral · production · kuiro5 · 2020-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Coming from Capybara in Rails, it is a very noticeable improvement.”
neutral · production · hugocbp · 2020-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I work on and manage hosting for RoR applications.”
neutral · production · holstvoogd · 2020-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we migrated our Rails deployment from Chef to Ansible.”
neutral · production · pqdbr · 2020-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“back when I used to take advantage of existing libraries in Ruby/Rails, in the vast majority of situations I was just utilizing a small portion”
neutral · production · enraged_camel · 2020-11-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It was written in Rails and took 10 mins at first.”
neutral · production · 8ytecoder · 2020-10-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At feeder.co we serve 25 requests / second (on Rails) per VM”
neutral · production · erikrothoff · 2020-09-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've been using Nix for deploying a Rails app for an enterprise customer”
neutral · production · mzaccari · 2020-05-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we needed to re-write a Rails database migration in a somewhat contorted manner to avoid a deadlock that was occurring in production.”
neutral · production · brian_cunnie · 2019-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The stack, if it matters, was ruby on rails with jQuery.”
neutral · production · 2 yr · mooreds · 2019-11-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We started the project using Rails for the front and backend, but eventually moved the majority of the SaaS elements to React and used Rails as our backend”
neutral · production · chptung · 2019-02-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I haven't had a single performance issue with a bunch of different Rails, Flask, Node, Phoenix and Jekyll apps”
neutral · production · nickjj · 2018-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Most of the codebase is in Ruby/Rails and NodeJS. The FrontEnd is built on React and jQuery”
neutral · production · sinstein · 2018-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“running Dockerized web apps (mostly Flask, Rails and Phoenix apps with Webpack, etc.)”
neutral · production · nickjj · 2018-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was involved in a Rails 3.x --> Rails 5.x upgrade of one of the larger Rails monoliths in the world”
neutral · production · JohnBooty · 2018-09-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“pretty much just to avoid local mySQL troubles in a Rails project”
neutral · personal · jypepin · 2017-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“taught myself perl, php and later rails and javascript.”
neutral · personal · Mc_Big_G · 2017-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used brunch with a rails app.”
neutral · personal · holtalanm · 2017-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I wrote the backend in Rails since no plugin could replicate the functionalities I needed.”
neutral · personal · 7 yr · acangiano · 2017-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we've replaced ActionController with Coach for request handling while still using the rest of the rails toolset”
neutral · production · afarrell · 2017-08-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have 80 tables and 300k LoC of Rails code”
neutral · production · jhwjhw · 2017-08-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“On the stack-specific modules -- we're using Rails. The gems are installed on a host mount.”
neutral · production · hosh · 2017-04-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“for my rails apps, each such hack always goes in an initializer file”
neutral · production · inopinatus · 2016-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“These are mostly rails servers and nginx reverse proxy's.”
neutral · production · trcollinson · 2016-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have to balance it against being able to use a constellation of gems in Rails”
neutral · production · coldnebo · 2016-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm an iOS and Rails stack developer, and 8GB on my last-gen MBP is just fine.”
neutral · production · elsurudo · 2016-11-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it was a Rails 3 app using Postgres and Elasticsearch that we migrated to React + node.js + webpack + babel”
neutral · production · mehwoot · 2016-10-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“rack-mini-profiler to work in a Rails app for a single-page app as the Rails app only returns JSON”
neutral · production · yoran · 2016-01-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The backend runs on Rails + PostgreSQL, the frontend is a mix of Rails and AngularJS.”
neutral · production · iagooar · 2015-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“primarily, we run Rails on the frontend and Scala on the backend.”
neutral · production · tobz · 2015-10-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“rails c takes 25 second to give a prompt vs 10 on with Ruby 2.2.2 and almost 0 after spring has started.”
neutral · personal · pmontra · 2015-07-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Learning ruby, rails, and django”
neutral · personal · nstart · 2015-07-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“to build a more real-time version of my current rails app.”
neutral · production · ffn · 2015-06-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For Rails apps I've been using god to manage unicorn and delayed_job/resque processes in recent years.”
neutral · production · pjungwir · 2015-06-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For example, in Rail, instead of setting up a variable in a private method for a before_action”
neutral · personal · cpursley · 2015-06-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“when we migrated from Rails 3 -> 4, Gor was paramount to shaking out some pretty nasty bugs”
neutral · production · atom_enger · 2015-06-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Rails since 2005 and so I got a good dose of vendor/plugins versus bare gem installation versus Bundler”
neutral · personal · 9 yr · dasil003 · 2014-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It feels as easy as working with Rails templates again”
neutral · production · btown · 2014-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've been running mostly VMs all this time on our app (Windows, SQL Server, Linux w/ Rails)”
neutral · production · atonse · 2014-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I worked with Rails for years.”
neutral · production · williamcotton · 2014-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use docker in production, for a rails app.”
neutral · production · dholowiski · 2014-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We maintain legacy code that has been in production for more than 8 years and write new fully unit and integration-tested code in Groovy/Grails, Ruby/Rails, Java, and Angular.”
neutral · production · throwway222 · 2014-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The view rendering doesn't need to be done by Rails.”
neutral · personal · picardo · 2014-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it pings our Rails app periodically for stats.”
neutral · production · rahilsondhi · 2014-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use NewRelic for our Rails application on Heroku”
neutral · production · fmotlik · 2014-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“a Ruby on Rails app featuring internal Clojure RPC”
neutral · production · temochka · 2014-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“They have a Rails application that needs to be deployed in two vastly different situations”
neutral · production · zrail · 2014-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I once worked for a large Fortune 500 that had several well-known programmers who's entire job was to be core-contributors to a popular ruby web framework.”
neutral · production · jashmenn · 2014-10-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I work on developing my Android development and Rails development skill sets in my free time.”
neutral · personal · laughfactory · 2014-07-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Absolutely, which is why we switched to them with Rails.”
neutral · production · steveklabnik · 2014-06-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we replaced a legacy rails app with a 20mbyte Excel report”
neutral · production · sebilasse · 2014-02-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I also am working on Ruby on Rails side project in my spare time”
neutral · personal · gremlinsinc · 2014-01-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the Rails implementation on JRuby is just a bit better than plain Ruby, but that is an improvement versus our previous rounds”
neutral · personal · bhauer · 2013-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I did stuff like this in single host servers in rails as well.”
neutral · production · grogenaut · 2013-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“as someone who's been using Bower with Rails for a while”
neutral · personal · lucisferre · 2013-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Python for a while for fun and Ruby (Rails) on and off.”
neutral · personal · edwinnathaniel · 2013-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“setting up a working Rails install involves, among other things, installing homebrew, xcode, xcode command tools”
neutral · personal · cheald · 2013-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At our company, we develop multiple RoR apps and we've run into many of these issues (mostly related to the asset pipeline)”
neutral · production · joaomsa · 2013-10-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Languages: Ruby on Rails, Obj-C, Java. We run on Asterisk and are hosted by RackSpace.”
neutral · production · takecarex3 · 2013-10-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“After that got a proper job doing Rails and learnt a lot more from working with others.”
neutral · production · lucaspiller · 2013-09-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to CircleCI from our own, painfully maintained Jenkins box to test our Rails apps.”
neutral · production · rsanders · 2013-09-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“after building a few Rails apps, never again will I use Drupal.”
neutral · production · mountaineer · 2013-08-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“our rails app used jruby and was pretty large so it took a minute or so to restart the server”
neutral · production · ratbeard · 2013-07-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's sort of a no-brainer for Rails apps.”
neutral · production · aculver · 2013-05-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use large parts of the Rails stack in many of our applications”
neutral · production · konstantinhaase · 2013-03-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run our current Rails 2.x products on shared servers (Rackspace).”
neutral · production · ahoyhere · 2013-02-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I want to love Heroku, but it doesn't scale for Rails apps.”
neutral · production · michaelrkn · 2013-02-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“before finally tackling Rails. When we do teach Rails, we stay very close to the framework itself”
neutral · production · knwang · 2013-02-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I work in an enterprise-ish setting and regularly develop with Spring MVC, Struts and Rails on the server side.”
neutral · production · paullth · 2012-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using analytical with our Rails backend which seems to achieve something similar”
neutral · production · mguterl · 2012-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The first iteration of our storefront was built using a 31 line chef recipe, rails, spree, nginx, unicorn, and postgresql.”
neutral · production · jsul · 2012-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using this for a new rails app”
neutral · personal · rgbrgb · 2012-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The original version was written in 2007 in Rails 1.2.x and Ruby 1.8.6. We migrated the app to Rails 3.1 last year”
neutral · production · 5 yr · cygwin98 · 2012-07-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“A rails app connects to the host to create the virtual machine.”
neutral · production · 3 yr · Deadsunrise · 2012-02-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I work at a company where we use rails and related tech exclusively”
neutral · production · alinajaf · 2011-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“On a pretty large rails app, we switched to 1.9.2 about a year ago.”
neutral · production · justinweiss · 2011-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“any specific suggestions beyond guides.rubyonrails.org for a beginner trying to learn Rails?”
neutral · personal · gmichnikov · 2011-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In Rails I use the s3_swf_upload gem to allow folks to upload directly to our S3 buckets.”
neutral · production · aculver · 2011-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use it on a large Rails app and love it.”
neutral · production · ascendant · 2011-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using LiveReload+Guard for this on Rails projects.”
neutral · personal · oops · 2011-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I tested Django, Rails, Cake, Java EE and buncha other stuff.”
neutral · personal · mahmud · 2011-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This ia a real rails app, so it's a bit of a tangent from my post”
neutral · production · jshen · 2011-11-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At night... I have been teaching myself to program Rails apps.”
neutral · personal · CHsurfer · 2011-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“my latest project which is on Rails 3.1 - so using CS was effortless.”
neutral · personal · danmaz74 · 2011-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I don't want to start a Rails or Django project (yes, I use both) just for the sake of having transparent precompilation”
neutral · personal · stdbrouw · 2011-10-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In production mode with assets cached it absolutely serves requests at a decent speed.”
neutral · personal · nckbz · 2011-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm working on something similar for our web apps, but using the application logs (Rails)”
neutral · production · bradleyland · 2011-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've tried to run some non-trivial Rails applications on JRuby and it's just too slow for development work.”
neutral · production · rbranson · 2011-09-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we heavily use it for a Rails app that receives ~5 million hits per day.”
neutral · production · rprime · 2011-09-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“callinwith.us is a rails app.”
neutral · production · dickeytk · 2011-09-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Volker made a titanic job porting to rails 3 (in production on my project)”
neutral · production · clyfe · 2011-09-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“To migrate our apps, it seems easier to upgrade rails, but continue to use our current asset compilation system.”
neutral · production · tenderlove · 2011-08-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have to use rvm in production because debian/ubuntu install ruby 1.8 and I need 1.9.2 for rails 3.”
neutral · production · SpikeGronim · 2011-08-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“our main app is still a Rails app and we ship more Rails code every week.”
neutral · production · jordibunster · 2011-07-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had spent a lot of my spare time working on my own RoR projects”
neutral · personal · jayx · 2011-07-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We're currently running a very standard Rails stack on VPS infrastructure.”
neutral · production · bradleyland · 2011-06-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Even after learning how to properly deploy rails apps in production, it still sucks.”
neutral · production · ddemchuk · 2011-06-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“used it in the last Rails application I wrote (still in production)”
neutral · production · 1337p337 · 2011-06-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I blog infrequently but mostly about Rails or iOS stuff.”
neutral · production · callmeed · 2011-05-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Data written to the file system isn't guaranteed to be there, unless it's written to RAILS_ROOT/permanent (or the rails 3 equivalent).”
neutral · production · sgrove · 2011-04-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been a rails developer since the beginning and this has been true on rails as far back as Rails 1.0”
neutral · production · 5 yr · gommm · 2010-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Just write your stylesheet_link_tag as normal, and then include :cache => request.ssl? ? "foo-secure" : "foo-standard"”
neutral · production · patio11 · 2010-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Namely setting up Rails in production and talking to customers on the phone.”
neutral · production · lionheart · 2010-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using the GoogleVisualr library for Rails”
neutral · personal · ClifReeder · 2010-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have a startup built on rails, and have been using rails to pay the bills along the way.”
neutral · production · cullenking · 2010-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I regret that I let my early start on RoR waste away while I was building stuff in PHP and Perl/Mason for them.”
neutral · personal · jbm · 2010-10-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We still use BERT-RPC for all communications between the Rails app and the backend file servers”
neutral · production · mojombo · 2010-10-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use it to deploy Rails, Sinatra, and PHP apps.”
neutral · production · zackham · 2010-10-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“A few of the "magic" things I've encountered thus far in Rails can be easily demystified by looking at the code.”
neutral · personal · snprbob86 · 2010-09-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Right now I'm running a Rails site in production with multithreading enabled”
neutral · production · sandofsky · 2010-06-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I built a web-service in Rails over the weekend that has turned out to be much slower in production than I had anticipated”
neutral · production · aarongough · 2010-06-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“an app that currently runs in production on ruby 1.8.7 + rails 2.3.5”
neutral · production · mtarnovan · 2010-05-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We clock in over double that, and still beat that number without counting auto-generated code (Ragel and Racc output)”
neutral · production · tptacek · 2010-03-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?