Ask HN: How do you migrate away from a Monorail (Ruby on Rails)? And to what?

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13 years ago

I'm considering moving some projects to Ruby on Rails, just to get more Rails experience. However, I'm concerned about eventually out-growing Rails. The way the Rails MVC framework is designed, it seems like the only way to abandon a Monorail is with a complete rewrite of your entire codebase.

Twitter had scaling issues with Rails: http://engineering.twitter.com/2011/04/twitter-search-is-now-3x-faster_1656.html

Airbnb also outgrew Rails: http://nerds.airbnb.com/how-we-built-airbnb-holiday-cards-in-less-tha

Here's a couple links I found that addressed moving from a Monorail: http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/posts/33-myth-4-rails-is-a-monolith

http://www.slideshare.net/pcalcado/from-a-monolithic-ruby-on-rails-app-to-the-jvm

Does anybody here have any experience with migrating away from Rails? If so, please share any links and experiences.

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