From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-12-01T07:58:36+09:00
Subject: Re: PHP vs. Ruby vs. Python (vs. Rails)

On Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 2:20:04 AM, Abraham wrote:

> As I was falling asleep last night I was wondering about the differences in
> terms of web development time and effort between PHP, Ruby, and Python. and
> I found myself wondering how much effort the Rails framework saves me from.
> Does anyone else out there have the experience to be able to compare these?
> I'm partly curious because I've found it so difficult to get Rails going on
> windows, while PHP was comparatively very easy. And Python I've just heard
> is wonderful - i.e. "Google uses it". My curiousity with Rails is born out
> of the fact that I've never used a scripting language for web development
> and so have no clue how much any framework helps in terms of effort/time
> saved.

> I appreciate any light anyone can throw on this subject! :-)

The first bit of light is that Rails is not, in fact, difficult to get
working on Windows.  There are videos linked from the Rails home page
[1] that go through the process, and they're easy to follow.

Cheers,
Gavin

[1] http://rubyonrails.org/RailsAcademy