I am relatively new to Ruby and Rails, but have a lot of experience with
Perl and PHP. After looking at Rails, I really like Ruby, but find
Rails
to be to restrictive in the way you have to do things.
This article:
sort explains how I feel, mostly #5. Maybe I just need to spend more
time learning Rails.
Moving from Perl to PHP was really easy. PHP seems to be Perl modified
for the web. What I am thinking of would be a PHP modeled on Ruby the
way PHP is modeled on Perl. Maybe call it RHP.
Moving from Perl to PHP was really easy. PHP seems to be Perl modified
for the web. What I am thinking of would be a PHP modeled on Ruby the
way PHP is modeled on Perl. Maybe call it RHP.
Thoughts?
Rails is not restrictive but it is very opinionated. There is a
difference.
You can get Rails to work around your data your way but then you’d be
better off writing your app with a different framework or directly on
top of Rack (similar to how you would with PHP)
Bottom line, Rails is not the only way to do web development with Ruby.
PS. Ruby has a good number of perlisms of it’s own
[…] Moving from Perl to PHP was really easy. PHP seems to be Perl
modified
for the web. What I am thinking of would be a PHP modeled on Ruby the
way PHP is modeled on Perl. Maybe call it RHP.
Thoughts?
Hi Dave,
if Rails doesn’t work for you, you can simply opt for Sinatra, Ramaze,
or
any other Ruby web framework that suits you better. You don’t even need
a
framework in fact, you could simply use Ruby “a la PHP”, through
ERb/eRuby/Erubis.
As Antonio says, the PHP version of Ruby is eruby. No Rails baggage -
just pull down the top, slip it into gear and drive off with the wind in
your hair, where-ever and however the fancy takes you.
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