Ethan: not sure what your point is - almost every line there refers to either their Rails app, or Rails itself. There’s one reference to a plugin (acts_as_modified), and one to core Ruby (benchmark), but beyond that, no outside dependencies.

Or were there more lines below what’s in the screenshot?

Yeah, Twitter has been totally nuts lately, and Rails is getting a bad reputation because of it. It may be as efficient as they say, but I still personally feel like there’s nothing better than just using PHP, Python, and sometimes even Perl still. Perl was deemed to be all but lost, but Movable Type still uses it and I was surprised to see how efficient it still executes in my servers.

Also, Rails and Django and these other frameworks require very finicky environments to live in that are a pain in the ass to build and maintain. I like being able to just upload a .php and have it work.

I actually like Django quite a bit, more because I like Python better than Ruby.