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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

Preface

Hi, all! From PHP to Ruby to Rails is a guide for people who have a PHP background and understanding but wish to extend their knowledge to another object-oriented programming language: Ruby. Ruby is a programming language originally created by Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto and publicly released in 1995. Since its inception, Ruby has been a very verbose language, and the open source community has adopted this trait to make Ruby programs very explicit regarding the intent of each line of code. This guide will not only teach you Ruby’s language features but also help you get into the mindset of Ruby application development. Along this journey of learning Ruby, you will also learn the basics of Ruby on Rails, a framework for creating web applications developed by David Heinemeier Hansson and released as an open source tool in 2004. With the growing popularity and adoption of Ruby and Ruby on Rails by tech companies, there is a lot of demand for Ruby developers all over the world. Whether you’re curious about Ruby and Ruby on Rails or want to find out whether Ruby is for you, this guide is for you.