[bullfightonmars]

It’s not even that rails is necessarily slow, it’s more the way you use it that is slow. If you tie all your businesses logic to the database and commit complicated changes in transactions, sure it will be terribly slow.

[fhdisjbsdjs]

What’s wrong with complicated (I’m not sure what that means - large numbers of rows updated? Disparate rows updated?) transactions? Depending on your RDBMS (and what it’s running on, config options, etc) this may or may not be slow.