Here is a website [https://archiveofourown.org](https://archiveofourown.org) built with Ruby on Rails

## Data

* **311 million visits** last month (September 2023) - according to [similarweb.com](https://www.similarweb.com/website/archiveofourown.org/)
    
* **6.3 million** users (as publicly shared by [archiveofourown.org](https://archiveofourown.org) on their main website)
    

![](/assets/images/posts/ruby-on-rails-can-scale-here-is-one-example/dd3b0924-ca80-4984-b81e-31081535c9da.png)

You can find data that is a bit bigger if you look at for example [semrush.com](https://www.semrush.com/website/archiveofourown.org/overview/):

![](/assets/images/posts/ruby-on-rails-can-scale-here-is-one-example/5e6f1e44-f203-4fc0-bcee-174d6d165b8c.png)

Whatever data you pick, this is a big web app with 6 million users and between 300 million and 1 billion visits.

## Tech Stack

They use at the date of writing this article:

* **Ruby** version 3.0.5
    
* **Rails** version 6
    

![](/assets/images/posts/ruby-on-rails-can-scale-here-is-one-example/5ddb979d-dd24-4882-98fb-9629a5d60b68.png)

Source: their [open-source Github repo](https://github.com/otwcode/otwarchive)

## Conclusion

Ruby on Rails does scale!

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Published at: 2023-10-12 | Updated at: 2024-01-11