Twitter Abandoning Rails? Is RoR Destined for Non-Enterprise Apps?

Ruby on Rails has gained in popularity since its creation by David Heinemeier Hansson back in 2004. It proved to be an intuitive web development framework. But in the last few years, critics have come to believe that RoR is incapable of powering enterprise level applications.

It appears that there may be some current rumors that would back up this claim. TechChrunch posted on May 1st that "Twitter is Said to be Abandoning Ruby on Rails". Twitter has been having quite a bit of performance issues as of late. It is probable that the poor performance can be narrowed down to increase in popularity and companies creating twitter accounts and spamming users to boost traffic. I hope that this is not the image that is perceived for our Property Stampede twitter account.

GigaOm recently posted that Ruby on Rails will be getting some Enterprise-Level Support. Benchmark Capital is in investing $3.5 million in New Relic Inc, which plans to use the funds to incubate RoR to a Enterprise-Level framework. It should be interesting, but I am rather skeptic. Lew Cirne hopes to boost the adoption of RoR like he did with Java, but Java had the support of Sun and IBM, which RoR is growing without any corporate support. It should be interesting none the less.

Chris