Posted by R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah on 09/04/07 18:00

On Aug 29, 4:16 pm, Erwin Moller
<Since_humans_read_this_I_am_spammed_too_m...@spamyourself.com> wrote:
> This may seem a odd question in a PHP group, but I think this might be a
> good place to ask since I am mainly a PHP coder these days that maybe
> starts with Ruby.
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I was forced to start RoR and I learned it. The idea is impressive.
The main idea is to cut short the development time; if you have
already invested your time on optimization and other code speedup
study, you'll start wondering about performance. And, finally Ruby is
slow and agreed. Also, RoR is also slow (execution speed) comparing
with normal programming. But, they're marketing by it's development
time. After reading RoR and tried it little (Ruby is Perl and Python),
I was wondering why this can't be done in PHP (Ruby guys swear that it
can't be done in PHP). Yes, we have couple of RoR alternatives. I got
settled in CakePHP as the time I have spent on RoR is easy to adopt
the CakePHP (the docs on CakePHP is very limited; but switching from
RoR to CakePHP is easy). Still it's slow (in terms of execution
speed), but the development is faster for Web 2.0/digg like sites.

I was told that RoR and it's other clones can be effectively used
to create prototype sites. If the site drives traffic and dollars,
another set of time and dollars can be invested to rewrite from
scratch using normal programming. IOW, you got and idea, you quickly
create the site, if the world is impressed with the idea, you can then
rewrite using normal programming.

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