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by digitalzombie 3912 days ago
Cowboy could serve API/data stuff instead.

RoR is productive for website/web apps.

I mean looking at just request per sec that metric would be much better for something like API/data serving app.

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> Cowboy could serve API/data stuff instead.

> RoR is productive for website/web apps.

Phoenix [0] uses Cowboy as its HTTP server.

[0] http://www.phoenixframework.org/

At company I work at we've got an application or two that have Erlang backend and a RoR frontend. It works pretty well IMO.