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Re:Rails, still? by jashmatthews on Saturday September 01, 2018 @12:55PM (#17892720)
> I don't think even the biggest Rails zealot would advocate building Google Maps in Rails.

Rails excels at being the web layer in this situation. All the heavy lifting is done by the DB to spit back feature structures or do routing and native libraries to do image composition.

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Re:Rails, still? by Doctor_Fegg on Saturday September 01, 2018 @01:33PM (#17892940)
And indeed, openstreetmap.org is a Rails site (though key parts of the API have been rewritten in C++ for performance).
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