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Ruby (on Rails) ecosystem bittersweet or "we like to hate PHP"

by Ievgen Kuzminov —

http://stdout.in/en/post/ruby-ecosystem-bittersweet-or-we-like-to-hate-php

I am trying to put some facts and personal experience to prove that PHP has healthier, more competitive and loosely-coupled ecosystem, than Ruby. I am talking about Performance, Syntax and Coding aspects, Community and Tools support.

In any case I do not encourage you to leave Ruby and start doing PHP! I just hope this post convince someone, that Ruby on Rails is not such a big and important Elephant in the Big Room of Web Applications Development. For a long time people in “parallel PHP universe” are doing a great products and have a good time with the tools not worse, than in Ruby world.

Comments

Most of the reasons people get all bummed about RoR and look elsewhere usually end up being the reasons I like RoR and continue to use it happily. If Rails started to look more like suggestions from some of the anti-RoR rants out there, I myself would be going on an anti-RoR rant from the opposite viewpoint!

Jared White —

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