Rudy Guiliani on Ruby on Rails

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…we’ve ported our entire campaign platform from PHP to Ruby on Rails. The thing about ROR is that you essentially save yourself all of the time writing database interaction code and we haven’t written a line of Javascript, which appeals to me because getting it to run across every browser is where we end up doing most of the debugging. Also, our beta cycles have been cut in half simply because it’s so much easier to put multiple coders onto a Ruby project. We switched from Apache to Lighty and from what our customers tell us, the lag is pretty much unnoticable now. All of this time saving is key, because since 9/11 we just don’t know when we’re going to need to put emergency websites into place to inform the people about new terror threats or to give them the resources to tell us about suspicious activity. I think using ROR is going to save a lot of lives. I hear Obama’s site runs on Perl…