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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
8
Part 2:Ruby and the Web

Considerations for Hosting Rails Applications versus PHP Applications

Congratulations for making it to this point. You’ve created a simple Rails application that uses controllers, views, and models. You used generators to prep for your development. You also set up the database with migrations. Lastly, you included a gem to help you out with authentication. And now, you’re happy to say, this application works on your machine. Now it’s time to share your application with the world (or maybe just a client), and herein lies an important difference between a PHP application and a Rails application: the hosting.

In this chapter, we are going to go through certain aspects of hosting that we must consider when releasing our Rails application. We’ll compare different hosting options, as well as examine additional concepts we need for Rails applications. Then, we will look at how the Rails framework behaves depending on the environment setup. More specifically...