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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

PHP versus Rails in terms of price

Before you give me grief about this unfair comparison, I’m not comparing PHP and Rails directly. They can’t really be compared, as one is a programming language and the other a framework. A more fair comparison would be comparing the Laravel framework with the Rails framework. What I’m trying to convey is a PHP universe in which many tools live. But to do that, we must go back in time for a bit to when PHP finally became object oriented. This object-oriented PHP opened up a whole new world of possibilities. In 2004, PHP was already popular, and with this new feature (object-oriented programming), it became even more popular. WordPress became the standard for managing blogs and eventually websites. More web frameworks developed with PHP came into the picture: CodeIgniter, Symfony, Laravel, just to name a few. Joomla and Drupal gave developers yet another option that was a mix of a framework and a Content Management System (CMS...