[malandrew]

If you approach it with a Rails/framework mindset, it's worse in node.js, but if you approach designing a large realtime system as many separate loosely coupled node.js processes, it's easier.

Whenever I see someone trying to cobble together their own framework by prepackaging a bunch of node.js libraries I see someone who is doing it wrong.

You shoot yourself in the foot in node.js when you treat it like rails. You shoot yourself in the foot with rails when you try to do anything outside the scope of problems for which it was designed.