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    This was nearly a decade ago. I worked at a small app company (5-10 developers) for a bit that used Ruby on Rails for our product. The product was in active development, but was available to customers so it was “done”. We were hiring a senior level dev to oversee the team and we interviewed this guy (maybe in his 40s?, a but older than most people in tech) and he said his first order of business if hired would be to refactor the entire code base to php. I don’t think he was joking. I’m not sure why he interviewed.

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      Is there anything serious still running on a Ruby codebase nowadays? In PHP however…

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        GitLab is Ruby at least, I don’t immediately remember any others but there probably are some

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            What can they do tho?

            Since the beginning, GitHub.com has been a Ruby on Rails monolith. Today, the application is nearly two million lines of code and more than 1,000 engineers collaborate on it daily

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        • GitHub
        • Gitlab
        • Airbnb
        • Shopify
        • Hulu
        • Zendesk
        • Basecamp, obviously

        I know of a bunch of less famous ones, but those are a few of the bigger ones that I’m aware of.

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        Only people supporting legacy regret.

        Ruby was never good. It just got memed enough to make it way into some medium business