Has Anyone Used RoR for Commercial App?

[JoeP]

Has anyone used Ruby On Rails for a commercial application on Bluehost?

What do you think of the framework?

Are you using FCGI?

Is it reliable?

Do you have to do any hacks to keep things running (like periodic site ping)?

What do you think of the performance?

Thanks,
joe

[beyondxm]

Hi Joe,
I haven't used a commercial ROR app with Bluehost, but I have used it for a pretty big intranet app.

Love the framework...I find it very flexible, yet meets most of my needs

Yes I've used fast cgi....I like it as well

As far as sending out a periodic ping goes. Look at this tutorial....it should semi point you in the right direction http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/09/rails_ajax.html

As far as pinging goes you can probably just set request/response controllers, Is this something you can possibly setup to trigger from a crontab ?

The performance in my opinion is excellent, but I've only built 2 ROR applications, however I'm very satisfied.

Also Bluehost has been extremely accomodating and responsive to ROR requests.

Thanks so much for that Bluehost, its a pleasure to deal with people as professional as yourselves.

Thanks,
Michael