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by randomdata 4642 days ago
They also had that big huff about ActiveRecord not supporting more than one database system in a replicated environment. Humorously, someone from outside of the organization supplied a patch a few minutes later.

To make matters more complicated, Twitter publicly abandoned Starling, their Ruby-based message queue, for something written in Scala. People took that to mean they abandoned Ruby and Rails completely.

As far as I know they are still using Rails to generate the HTML pages. If not, it is a recent change.

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> As far as I know they are still using Rails to generate the HTML pages. If not, it is a recent change.

I think they recently moved that part to the Scala, but it was much later than the other thing.