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Do Nascimento Romain
6,303 PointsIs making an Instant Messaging System with RubyOnRails a bad idea ?
Hello,
I'm thinking of making a web app that provides instant messaging services (something similar to Slack, Skype, Hall...) with some social features.
I first thought that Ruby would be a nice programming language to do so.
However, I found several times on the Internet that Ruby was quite bad at handling lots of requests, and making an instant messaging system with it is not a good idea. People instead suggested me to use an event-driven programming language such as node.js.
Are they right ? What do you think about it guys ?
Thanks :)
1 Answer
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 PointsYou can research Rails' support for Websockets through alternative servers like Puma or Phusion Passenger. I can't say how well this would perform under load, I just wrote a simple chat using this tutorial: http://www.sitepoint.com/realtime-mini-chat-rails-faye/
It worked fine, even when deployed on Heroku. It's possible that Node is better suited for this, but I have no experience with it.
Do Nascimento Romain
6,303 PointsDo Nascimento Romain
6,303 PointsThank you ! The tutorial looks great I'll try it as soon as I'll have a little time.