Ruby's Concurrency Nightmare

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Ruby on Rails, like most other programming technologies, now finds itself caught in the concurrency quagmire. While RoR has a streamlined focus on the Web application domain, parallelism isn't as limited in terms of domain, platform or application?it's everywhere.

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