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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

Integrating libraries into your code in Ruby

One of the most useful skills you should acquire in your path to becoming a seasoned Ruby developer is integrating other gems into your code. As we’ve seen before, this is accomplished by using the Gemfile, but we’ll look at some additional options we can add to it and integrate them into our own scripts. Let’s write a script that takes the GitHub public API and lists all of the public repos for the user @PacktPublishing. There are several ways we could do this, but for this example, I’ve chosen a gem called Faraday. You can take a look at the source code here: https://github.com/lostisland/faraday.

Faraday is a client library that can help us make Representational State Transfer (REST) calls that are much easier to read than using the native Net::HTTP library that comes with Ruby. Let’s create a folder called integrating_gems and navigate to that folder:

mkdir integrating_gems
cd integrating_gems...