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0 pointscheald13y ago0 comments

Lots of people successfully run Rails on Ubuntu in production. I don't think it's fair to cry "rotten wood" here, unless the Rails ecosystem is flush with amazing systems wizards who can work around crippling flaws in the OS to run their software.

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npsimons13y ago

I don't think it's fair to cry "rotten wood" here, unless the Rails ecosystem is flush with amazing systems wizards who can work around crippling flaws in the OS to run their software.

Agreed; however, if they were having problems with Ubuntu (or indeed Linux in general), why didn't they try something else? That's the quick and easy way to see if it's really the platform or your application that's the problem (quick tip from my own userland developer experience: it's almost always not the platform; the times I've had Linux crash on me I could always trace to one of three things: 1) flaky hardware, 2) binary drivers, or 3) I was mucking about in kernel space ;)

chealdOP13y ago

What really blows my mind is that they did a regressive rewrite to Rails 2 rather than learn to use profiling tools.

The whole situation just makes my brain stare blankly and wonder what on earth was happening over there.

ahoyhere13y ago

Yes, because it's not like Thomas (my partner/husband) is a performance expert or anything. And it's not like 3-4 Rails Core team members who tried very hard to help us have ever heard of profiling tools.

My mind just exploded, too, due to your willful inability to read the details.

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