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I know many folks in the Rails community wonder why anybody could still be using a years-old system.

Once this statement is no longer true, Rails will be ready for the enterprise.

Once that statement is true, Rails will BE the enterprise. Don't bank on it. (And by that I mean we'll continue to release new versions that at times will be backwards incompatible and require work to upgrade to).

Already is! I've submitted talks a few times about my experiences with Rails in an enterprise environment, no luck. Anyway, We run rails since 2006, we got large and became a bank.

Numbers: 5032 models, 42 gems, 16 submodules, lots of C extensions and eventmachine servers running in threads. From our website to ATM servers, it's everything inside a single rails application. We managed to upgrade from 2.3 to 3.2 in 6 months. Already running 4 (took only a few hours). We just completed our migration from Oracle DB to Postgres.

5032...models...I, whu... ONE application?!

I would never have thought that was actually possible. A write-up regarding your architecture / challenges / solutions / future plans in a blog post would be extremely interesting.

(How long does the test suite take to run!?)

This is enterprise. What test suite?

That is wildly interesting. If you could swing it, you should write up a full post about what that your Rails app looks like after 7 years in production.

I'd like to read more about this, if you're allowed to tell.

I've been postponing writing about this for a long time, mostly because I wanted to talk at railsconf before writing a post (who am I kidding, I just procrastinate a lot), having submitted the talk for the last 3 years without getting in I'll definetly write a long post about it.

Perhaps after receiving feedback on your post, you'll find one oe two aspects that you can refine or drill deeper on and will make a great railsconf talk for next year.

> having submitted the talk for the last 3 years without getting in

That's a shame.

If it helps any, all my talks were rejected this year too. :/

I would pay to hear this talk.

Sounds like you have some interest from others here. Talk into a webcam for an hour. Sell the video.

what is your memory footprint?

Just recently my enterprise retired our Windows 3.1 environment. It was kept running to support a system that supported a system that supported dial-up VPN access for a certain subset of users. And that's not incredibly uncommon...

I was actually surprised reading that statement given Rails' maturity. When the large AD vulnerability was announced and many people were caught in the open for a while I had assumed there were a large number of people running version n-1 Rails.

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