This document discusses high concurrency Ruby web development. It begins by stating the goals of defeating other languages like Erlang while maintaining easy Ruby-like usage. It then shows benchmarks demonstrating Ruby's relative slowness. An approach using EventMachine callbacks is presented, but noted to be difficult. An asynchronous library called Midori is introduced, which uses fibers to avoid blocking and achieve performance comparable to Node.js. Middleware, real-time communication, and next steps are briefly discussed before concluding.