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Re:Today Rails turns 10 years old by nathancahill on Saturday July 26, 2014 @12:22AM (#8088925)
After 10 years, is it fast yet?

http://www.isrubyfastyet.com/

Re:Today Rails turns 10 years old by brianhempel on Saturday July 26, 2014 @01:32AM (#8089008)
As the IRFY creator, I freely admit that site needs some love.

Also, technically, it's a Ruby benchmark. The Rails version is going to be locked to 3.1.3 for as long as possible. The benchmark does not reflect speed improvements in the Rails codebase.

Though, yes, Rails serves less requests per second than many other things: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/