From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2004-04-22T04:50:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Is Ruby is better than PHP ...

Hello Useko,

Wednesday, April 21, 2004, 5:59:05 PM, you wrote:

UN> or perhaps Java for developing web application?

UN> I've develop a few applications using PHP/MySQL/Apache and its growing in
UN> size. After reading the Ruby tutorial, and do a simple script, I kind of
UN> like this ease of use and a much cleaner language.

UN> But I have reservation about its viability as a dominant web programming
UN> language/tools. As with PHP, everywhere you look its PHP, perhaps it has
UN> extensive bell and whistles for web programmers to write cool and
UN> sophisticate commercials grade web application.

I also see Lisp (like Yahoo) and Smalltalk based web applications.
There are a lot of way to do things.

UN> How about its security? Is
UN> it better/worse than PHP? Is Ruby thread-safe?

Its worse if you have to use a shared hosting environment. Its not
possible to protect different virtual hosts when using mod_ruby. Of
course you can setup an FCGI ruby server for each virtual host, but
this can raise your memory consumption a lot.

UN> So, what's the drawback of leaving PHP and embrace Ruby as web programming
UN> tools?

If you must host 100 users on a 2,0 GHz Pentium with 1 GB RAM, you
don't have real a choice: you must use PHP.

But if you do more complicated thinks in larger applications there is
no drawback in leaving PHP and moving to a new language, whatever you
choose (maybe FORTH or Assembler wouldn't be really good but maybe
still better then PHP :-)

Virtual Servers get more popular every day, so you have the freedom to
choose what you want.


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 Lothar                            mailto:mailinglists@scriptolutions.com