After about 2 years of working with Rails on a few side projects, I have decided to drop any further development in Rails. I will be going back to PHP full force, not that I ever ditched PHP, as Rails was always an exploration for me. It served well on a few large projects mydiabeteseducator.org and fanboom.com, but I have found although its super fast to get up and running. I will usually run into massive issues with hosting and getting past the scaffolding phase. I really do enjoy the migrations, the database object model, MVC, and scaffolding was pretty slick. If you havent checked out Rails, I would give it a try – but most of my developer friends who have given it a try, end up going back to php.
If there is something Im missing or a reason why Rails is better than php, Im open to discussion.
Category PHP, Ruby on Rails
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Luke Melia
July 28th, 2009 at 5:17 am
The #1 reason I prefer RoR over PHP: Ruby. I find the language to be an order of magnitude more expressive and elegant.
Kyle
August 6th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Hey Jake,
Interesting to read this from you, as I have just stumbled upon a similar post from the O'Reilly Ruby blog from a few years back. Check it out
http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/09/7_rea...
Chuck
November 19th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Hey Jake, have you played around with CakePHP?
jrutter
November 24th, 2009 at 12:07 am
Yes, I have. Its ok, sort of feels like a blatant copy of rails which makes me wonder why someone wouldnt just use rails. Have you played around with it?
Chuck
November 24th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
I haven't, but I was interested in it for that very reason. Since I have experience with PHP, it seems like a logical step to do CakePHP instead of committing to Ruby/Rails (having to learn a new language, etc.)
jrutter
December 7th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Rails is pretty nice, tons of great support and now with Passenger it makes running rails a breeze. Also loved the tool capistrano for creating deployment scripts with subversion!