I found an interesting topic recently in a forum discussion. It was about whether or not an eBay clone could be build on the top of Ruby on Rails. A few interesting questions are: “Is RoR the best toolkit for doing that?”, “Whether the
same eBay functionality could be accomplished?” or “Could it scale enough?”
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  Programming languages and tools from the business point of view  

Programming languages and tools are considered only for developers but smart companies have understood that in order to achieve best results they should not only care for business but for developers too. And what kind of better care than the one for programmers happiness and productivity by suppling them with the best tools available? This article intention is to point out in a bit of a story like form how Rails helps. It will go from the ways of developing a web application and points out some of the aspect in business and development which are really useful when a company chooses to use Rails for it’s development tool.

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