Ruby(on rails) vs PHP

lastlegion

I have been hearing a lot about RoR. Many people say its better than PHP and many say its not. I dont know much about Ruby but I have been programming in PHP for more than two years and havnt been disappointed. But someone people have been advising me to use Ruby instead.

Here are my points in favour of php(cuz I dont know much about ruby)

-Big community supporting new programmers
-Tons of free scripts and tutorials
-Open source(I think)

cant think of more right now

I'd like to know what u guyz think...

qebab

Ruby is definitely more elegant than php, but it has a smaller userbase and there's less documentation. It's more general-purpose than php as well, it is natively OO (that is, the language is built on OO, OO isn't just something they slapped on it when it got 'trendy'), and Rails is simply a framework for webprogramming with Ruby.

There are a lot of differences between Ruby, but personally I would program in Ruby over php. However, whether you're easily able to change, I wouldn't know. If you seriously consider it, get the pickaxe (Programming Ruby, or Ruby Programming, can't remember the name, it just goes by the name 'pickaxe' most places), and see what you think about it. You should definetely know Ruby itself before you start fiddling with the Rails framework.

lastlegion

Well just because ruby is more elegant doesn't make it more powerful does it? And I think even PHP can be made elegant by proper organized coding

JayBee

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