Are there any scalability issues with Ruby on Rails?

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It is not with RoR but every system has scalability issues. Generally we search for the performance requirements. Building scalability websites books can guide you through evaluating Ruby on Rail instances against the current production setup and load. RoR out of the box on good hardware should be fine for small experiments and low volume websites.

Scalability issues with Ruby on rails

1.     Scalability issue is concerned at system level and not the language or framework.

2.    As concerned as a class of problem, you should be aware if your processing is CPU intensive and requires a large intra process cache for performance, you would long to run maximum threads within one process than a large number of concurrent processes. In such a language, which cannot run a number of CPU bound process will introduce a constraint.

3.    The only solution remains in such condition is to either use shared memory or network based caches such as memcached.

4.    As everyone is aware that scalability is a system problem and not a language problem, you will have exact same issues scaling Rails that you will any other framework.

5.    Ruby on Rails generally have its own ORM and is based on sqldb in most of the cases.

Sometimes it suffers from the problem of scalability.

Some early scalability issues:

1.    Overwhelmed web server(servers)
2.    Db (Reads/ Writes)
3.    Disk I/O
4.    Network throughput/ latency

Solutions to scalability issues:

1.    Load balanced web servers
2.    Replications/ sharding
3.    Cache, cache
4.    CDN

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