From: "Florian Groß" <florgro@...>
Date: 2005-04-16T06:40:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Is Ruby good for web applications?

Unknown User wrote:

> I am a Python and Ruby programmer and I'm thinking about learning PHP,  
> which is similar to C++ (quite different from Python and Ruby). I want 
> to  start writing web applications. Do you think if I use Ruby rather 
> than PHP  I'll develop faster? Does PHP or Ruby have more features? How 
> about the  speed of execution? What are the pros and cons? Will I have 
> to compile the  code before running the apps like I need for regular 
> desktop apps?

Have a look at RubyOnRails at http://www.rubyonrails.org/

It is a very popular web development framework right now. I think that 
it can back up the buzz in quite a lot of cases as well and am currently 
using it for developing yet another ecommerce application.