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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

Using rbenv

While it is highly recommended to use some sort of homogeneous environment for all members of the team (such as the virtual ones previously mentioned), a simpler and quicker way to create equivalent environments is to use some sort of Ruby version management tool. These types of tools allow us to install different versions of Ruby and for the most part will behave similarly, even if they are installed on different operating systems. We have a couple of options, but for simplicity, we will use rbenv: https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.

rbenv allows us to install multiple versions of Ruby and manage these versions. By managing them, I mean we can define what version of Ruby the whole system uses (global), or we can define a specific version to be used on each project (local). For macOS and Linux users, you should follow the instructions on the previously mentioned GitHub repository, which also serves as the official website. If you run into any issues while trying to install...