Ruby scaling issue

This is breaking news for me :) I have discussed with few of you that I have doubt about scaling Ruby on Rail Apps

Twitter is thinking to move to Java or PHP due to scaling issues.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/01/twitter-said-to-be-abandoning-ruby-on-rails/

Only time will tell whether Twitter is having problem due to the way Ruby works or whether their code has design problem.

Well still there are many Ruby fans who are moving from Java to Ruby.

To me - If you like to learn new things then learn Ruby. Ruby is fun but don't use it for any enterprise level apps. Java is proven technology so, I think it is better to stay away from Ruby for sometime and let someone else take a risk :)

Hacker Arguments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=178917