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Somewhat of a tangent - are there any huge Ruby apps that are not Rails monoliths? All of the big Ruby apps are big Rails monoliths - Cookpad, Github, Shopify. Of course they probably have some services, but you wouldn't call them a "microservices" architecture by any means.

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Sounds like Stripe may be a large service oriented system written in Ruby but not Rails. https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Stripe-choose-to-use-Ruby-for-...

Interesting that the bulk of their web interface was written in CoffeeScript at the time of the answer even though they weren't using Rails. I've just never seen a well-known product using CoffeeScript without Rails.

I do wonder if that remains to be the case or if they've moved their web interface to something else. They've released a number of new products the past year, and I'm sure at least one isn't CoffeeScript given the content of the post.

I believe Stripe is Sinatra with a custom rolled ORM. Seem to remember one of the founders posting that...maybe even here on HN.

Not really an app in typical sense but Heroku is mostly Sinatra afaik.

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