Hey, @ikai your article is wrong. Mongrel was multi-threaded, Rails and Ruby weren't.

Clearing up some things about LinkedIn mobile’s move from Rails to node.js « Ikai Lan says

ikaisays.com 05 Oct '12, 6am

Hey, @ikai your article is wrong. Mongrel was multi-threaded, Rails and Ruby weren't.

The iPhone SDK had shipped around that time. We didn’t have an app ready for launch, but we wanted to build one, so our team did, and we inadvertantly became the mobile team. So suddenly, we decided that this array of Rails server that made API calls to PAL (which was, back then, using a pre-OAuth token exchange technology that was strikingly similar) would also be the primary API server for the iPhone client and any other rich mobile client we’d end up building, this thing that was basically using Rails rhtml templates. We upgraded to Rails 2.x+ so we could have the respond_to directive for different outputs. Why didn’t we connect the iPhone client directly to PAL? I don’t remember. Oh, and we also decided to use OAuth for authenticating the iPhone client. Three legged OAuth, so we also turned those Rails servers into OAuth providers. Why did we use 3-legged OAuth? Simple...

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RT @zedshaw: RT @zedshaw: Hey, @ikai your article [link] is wrong. Mongrel was multi-threaded, Rails and Ruby weren't.
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RT @zedshaw: RT @zedshaw: Hey, @ikai your article [link] is wrong. Mongrel was multi-threaded, Rails and Ruby weren't.

Clearing up some things about LinkedIn mobile’s move from Rails to node.js « Ikai Lan says

Hey, @ikai your article is wrong. Mongrel was multi-threaded, Rails and Ruby weren't.

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