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Discussion on: I’m Ben and I am a Rails developer

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Dave Cridland

I genuinely had no idea Rails was thought of as anything other than just another framework.

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Ben Halpern

Twitter’s backend was initially built on Ruby on Rails, a rudimentary web-application framework that made it nearly impossible to find a technical solution to the harassment problem.

vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/how-tw...

Twitter continually blaming all their problems on Rails was a big factor that still hasn't gone away.

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Dave Cridland

Or, from Blaine Cook, who I'd see as a slightly more reliable tech source than Vanity Fair:

twitter.com/i/web/status/965805206...

(Blaine's a lovely chap, by the way, we should try to get him on here).