But does Rails scale?

You may naturally have a very highly efficient research organisation with high level of data production! But that said...what scale do you actually need?

You may not know this, but Rails is the backbone of companies like Shopify, Airbnb, Github etc (see more here). So the answer is "yes, Rails does scale" and we are rather confident that it will also scale well enough for your needs.

If you would like to know more about Ruby on Rails (rails) then have a look at this brand new documentary (November 2023) where the founders and initial maintainers talk about the history of Rails.