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Lucian Ghinda
Lucian Ghinda

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Ruby on Rails can scale - here is one example

Here is a website https://archiveofourown.org built with Ruby on Rails

Data

archiveofourown stats

You can find data that is a bit bigger if you look at,for example semrush.com:

archiveofourown stats from semrush.com

Whatever data you pick, this is a big web app with 6 million users and between 300 million and 1 billion visits.

Tech Stack

They use at the date of writing this article:

  • Ruby version 3.0.5

  • Rails version 6

Tech Stack

Source: their open-source Github repo

Conclusion

Ruby on Rails does scale!


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