CSC/ECE 517 Summer 2008/wiki2 1 mf
Ruby vs PHP
While Ruby is fast growing in popularity, there are still more PHP Web applications communicating with MySQL dataases. Compare Rails with support for Web applications in PHP. Which are the advantages of each for the developer? For the finished application?
Advantages for the developer
Ruby on Rails
PHP
- Availability of code snippets, assistance, and documentation - PHP is a much more popular and widely used language than Ruby on Rails. With that comes the huge advantage of a large developer base: near limitless help and support for a problem that some else has much more than likely already experienced.
- More control - with PHP you are not stuck trying to make your application fit a framework. You can make you application do what you want however you want to do it. If you are good at what you are doing you can still have beautiful code without a strict framework trying to get you to design/develop properly.