This is something newbies repeat to justify their choice of a piss poor implementation. Sure with 10 users hitting your Rails app it might perform the same as N

This is something newbies repeat to justify their choice of a piss poor implementation. Sure with 10 users hitting your Rails app it might perform the same as Nginx with a custom C handler talking to a database written in C, but increase the load and soon your handing Amazon thousands a month on ec2 nodes while I am still on a small Linode. The funny thing is because of code gen and experience I can probably write my app faster than you dicking around with framework after framework