[Chirb] Rails Scaling Experience?

[Troy Denkinger]

All,

I'm right in the midst of advocating for use of Rails on a project I'm
in the middle of.  I manage a team that has created a service that
runs on Rails.  To date we've been in development and haven't had any
serious outside usage, nor have we deployed on production-ready
hardware.  We are very happy with the ease of development, how
responsive we can be to the business requirements, and the support
we've found within the community at large.

Recently we have been asked to merge our service into an existing
company that has always used a Java stack in their development.  They
have a couple developers and an operations team that is comfortable
with Java.  The major concern about using our Rails code is that they
are concerned with scaling of Rails apps in general, and they are
using that concern to advocate a port of the existing Rails code to
their Java stack.

I know one thing that would make the Ops team happy is to talk to
someone who has actual experience with large-scale Rails deployments.
I think they're being rightly pragmatic about this, and I'd like to
find them someone to talk to.  Anyone know anyone who would be willing
to talk a bit about what they've done to scale a Rails installation?
I'm sure I could work up some sort of compensation for someone with
relevant experience who'd like to share it.

Regards,

Troy