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		piers on Jan 21, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 2 Questions about RoR Actually I think you're right. Didn't they develop their own flash server with python? But they started with RoR didn't they?

nickb on Jan 21, 2008 [–]

You're both semi-wrong. The website, justin.tv, is written in RoR and always was. Their flash server, PMS (Python Media Server), is written in Python. It was always in Python. PMS replaces the need to run Adobe's Flash server.

emmett on Jan 21, 2008 | [–]

That's correct. Thanks for clearing that up!

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