Ask HN: Is HN written using Ruby on Rails?
Just curious because it seems that it is written using rails.
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Re:Ask HN: Is HN written using Ruby on Rails?
by FajitaNachos on Friday June 21, 2013 @10:23AM
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It's not. I'm sure someone will hop in with the specifics. I think it's written in arc.
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Re:Ask HN: Is HN written using Ruby on Rails?
by Peroni on Friday June 21, 2013 @10:25AM
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Correct. Considering PG created it, it makes sense.
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Re:Ask HN: Is HN written using Ruby on Rails?
by pranavk on Friday June 21, 2013 @10:26AM
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hmm. ya just got the source code here :
https://github.com/wting/hackernews
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Re:Ask HN: Is HN written using Ruby on Rails?
by checker659 on Friday June 21, 2013 @10:21AM
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Why does it seem so?
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Re:Ask HN: Is HN written using Ruby on Rails?
by pranavk on Friday June 21, 2013 @10:23AM
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well that was just my intuition. may be because its easy to make such a thing with rails (may be i am getting biased here.)
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Re:Ask HN: Is HN written using Ruby on Rails?
by rizky05 on Friday June 21, 2013 @10:49AM
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arc was invented for hn
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Re:Ask HN: Is HN written using Ruby on Rails?
by prodigal_erik on Monday June 24, 2013 @02:57AM
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Creating HN was just an excuse to prototype a web app in Arc. It's really an effort towards http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html.
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Re:Ask HN: Is HN written using Ruby on Rails?
by pranavk on Friday June 21, 2013 @12:13PM
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:/
was invented for HN ?
HN could have easily been built using rails or django.
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Re:Ask HN: Is HN written using Ruby on Rails?
by MrBra on Monday June 24, 2013 @12:03AM
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which web development frameworks have you worked with so far?
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Re:Ask HN: Is HN written using Ruby on Rails?
by pranavk on Monday June 24, 2013 @02:14AM
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only rails and django :D
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