On Jul 24, 4:10 am, Max Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > > PHP has been around longer. However, Ruby is a *much* better-designed > > language than PHP. > > Agree completely. It's not about rails vs php, it's about ruby vs php. > Ruby is a very friendly language.
So is PHP -- so much so that it tends to attract people who don't really know how to program, which is probably what gives it its bad reputation. It is quite feasible to do decent coding in PHP that doesn't hurt to read or maintain. However, Ruby is a better language than PHP, and I'll take Ruby over PHP any day if I have the choice. > Rails has also made it very popular, > which means there are many advantages to using it, such as support and > work availability. Php is still here and will be for a while but it's > kind of horrible. Most of the php work i see is in hacking wordpress > sites. Do not want. That's the fault of WordPress, then. Don't blame the language for the framework. > I have no experience of cakePHP but it sounds like > a rails clone done in a painful language, with a smaller community. PHP isn't "painful", at least if you do it right -- it's just not as well designed as Ruby. I haven't used CakePHP either, but CodeIgniter (another Rails-inspired PHP framework) is really well thought out, or so it seems from the little bit that I've done with it. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
