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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about the different functions we can use to debug in PHP and the equivalent in Ruby, and how to debug our code by using three different tools that are easily configured and installed. While not wanting to impose my debugging gem of choice, I will say that for several years I used pry, until byebug came along. I suggest you not only try byebug but also be on the lookout for new debugging gems. We also learned how to add breakpoints to our debug code and how useful and powerful these breakpoints can be during development. Lastly, we learned that all of these gems are basically enhanced IRBs, so we can easily use any of them as they all behave in a very similar fashion.

Having seen all this, we are now ready to board the Ruby on Rails wagon.