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by jrirei 5356 days ago
We did go for Ruby in order to increase developer productivity (having a very small team of just two developers), and good code quality/high test coverage. We were sure we needed to refactor a lot later on. So Ruby seems like a good choice. But Ruby is NOT good at waiting no a database / network latency. But I guess with PHP we would have had exactly the same problems.
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Did you compare bare bones PHP with Ruby or PHP with a library such as Zend?

I curious because I'm considering recoding a large part of a website and are trying to avoid scaling issues.

Thank you for the answer.