From: khaines@...
Date: 2006-12-13T01:19:10+09:00
Subject: Re: [ONLINE GAME] Ruby Core + Php FrontEnd (open)

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Jason Roelofs wrote:

> If you want a PHP comparison to Rails, look at Cake (which is, of course,
> made in the likeness of Rails). Rails is simply a framework to make
> developing data-driven websites easy. People have written CMSs and whatnot
> in Rails, but they are not Rails.

CakePHP is SLOOOW, though.  Rails is slow, yeah, but Cake is SLOW.  For a 
game with a lot of simultaneous users, Cake will exact a hardware penalty 
for using it, for sure.

> I will reiterate what has been said here: mixing languages and technologies
> and trying to get them all to agree on what's going on is something you just
> don't do.

Why?  People use more than one language on a project all the time.  It's 
not a bad thing to do.  Interfacing between discrete pieces of a project 
written in different languages is little different from interfacing 
between discrete pieces written in the same language, unless one is using 
some language specific feature (like Marshal) in the interface.

What he wants to do, writing the user interface in something he is very 
familiar with -- PHP -- and the backend in something more suited to that 
role -- Ruby -- is perfectly practical.


Kirk Haines