From: Waleed Harbi <waleed.harbi@...>
Date: 2007-10-01T20:24:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. PHP

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http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=ruby&lang2=php

On 10/1/07, Marcin Raczkowski <mailing.mr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> My company is trying to get big contract for creating and maintaining
> HUGE website (nation wide portal). We're trying to convince investor
> that Ruby (i don't mean rails) with custom tailored MVC framework is
> best solution, we're going to make prototypes in rails FAST, then port
> heaviest and most frequently used parts to my custom framework, rewrite
> AR into tuned SQL queries etc.
>
> investor was quite impresed with speed of development but of course
> there's trouble in paradise .. he hired a consultant :/ - this guy AFAIK
> did lot's of work but only in PHP and he is trying to convince investor
> PHP is way to go.
>
> could you please help me find some benchmarks comparing speed of PHP vs
> Ruby (especially YARV/JRuby, if ound some benchamrks that show Ruby is
> slower in interpreter), mayby comparsions of security(in Rails it's
> preatty imposible to do sql injections if programmer is carefull enought
> to use properly constructed queries).
>
> also I'm open to any arguments(preferable documented, with showcases,
> and understandable by investor(who never had much expirience with
> computers except for e-mail and www)) that would help convince him that
> ruby is much better then php  :)
>
> and I'm also looking for big sites that adopted ruby / ruby on rails
> (especially with huge number of users / hit's per s)
>
> Marcin Raczkowski
>
>


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Waleed Harbi
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