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From PHP to Ruby on Rails

By : Bernard Pineda
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Book Image

From PHP to Ruby on Rails

4 (1)
By: Bernard Pineda

Overview of this book

Are you a PHP developer looking to take your first steps into the world of Ruby development? From PHP to Ruby on Rails will help you leverage your existing knowledge to gain expertise in Ruby on Rails. With a focus on bridging the gap between PHP and Ruby, this guide will help you develop the Ruby mindset, set up your local environment, grasp the syntax, master scripting, explore popular Ruby frameworks, and find out about libraries and gems. This book offers a unique take on Ruby from the perspective of a seasoned PHP developer who initially refused to learn other technologies, but never looked back after taking the leap. As such, it teaches with a language-agnostic approach that will help you feel at home in any programming language without learning everything from scratch. This approach will help you avoid common mistakes such as writing Ruby as if it were PHP and increase your understanding of the programming ecosystem as a whole. By the end of this book, you'll have gained a solid understanding of Ruby, its ecosystem, and how it compares to PHP, enabling you to build robust and scalable applications using Ruby on Rails.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Part 1:From PHP to Ruby Basics
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Part 2:Ruby and the Web

Bringing It All Together

So far, we have seen how to use controllers, views, and models in a somewhat detached manner. In the previous chapter (Models, Databases, and Active Record), we manipulated data on our database. However, we didn’t see how to interact with the database data from our controller, much less how to load that database data into our view. In this chapter, we are going to see how everything comes together – that is, we’ll load a model from the controller and pass the model data to our view so that the end user will see data on the browser. We will also do the reverse, which is getting data from the user into our database, starting from the view and ending on the model. Furthermore, we will also learn the Rails way to perform these actions, as they are quite different from the way we would do these tasks in PHP.

With models, views, and controllers in mind, in this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Setting up our initial application...