From: Andrew Timberlake <andrew@...>
Date: 2009-05-28T23:23:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby version of PHP

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:05 PM, dave p <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
> I am relatively new to Ruby and Rails, but have a lot of experience with
> Perl and PHP.  After looking at Rails, I really like Ruby, but find Rails
> to be to restrictive in the way you have to do things.
> This article:
>
> http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/
> blog/2007/09/7_reasons_i_switched_back_to_p_1.html
>
> sort explains how I feel, mostly #5.  Maybe I just need to spend more
> time learning Rails.
>
> Moving from Perl to PHP was really easy.  PHP seems to be Perl modified
> for the web.  What I am thinking of would be a PHP modeled on Ruby the
> way PHP is modeled on Perl.  Maybe call it RHP.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>

Rails is not restrictive but it is very opinionated. There is a difference.
You can get Rails to work around your data your way but then you'd be
better off writing your app with a different framework or directly on
top of Rack (similar to how you would with PHP)
Bottom line, Rails is not the only way to do web development with Ruby.

PS. Ruby has a good number of perlisms of it's own

Andrew Timberlake
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