May 23 2008
Rails Creator Praises PHP
I would consider myself above average, maybe even an expert when in comes to developing in PHP. I can pretty much accomplish whatever my heart imagines as far as web applications with it. The problem comes when I have to maintain these applications. Therefore I have looked into frameworks such as Ruby on Rails and CakePHP. I’ve teetered between the two. I’ve heard many say that Ruby is what makes rails so great. On the other hand CakePHP allows you to use your extensive knowledge of PHP and put in a more maintainable framework.
Well, all things considered led me to make the decision to learn Ruby on Rails. It’s been much more daunting than I imagined it would be. I feel like an old dog trying to learn new tricks.
In the process of learning, I’ve been all over the web. One stop led me to the blog of David Heinemeier Hannson - the creator of Ruby on Rails. One thing that has been quite annoying is reading post from self-righteous Ruby on Rails developers who like to put down PHP. So it was refreshing to see DHH give PHP a little love!
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I’m currently trying to learn Ruby on Rails. I guess now is somewhat of an odd time to be learning as I seem stuck in archaic examples and tutorials written for 1.2.6 and 2.0 has been released and changed the way many things are done.
