Arevos

Ruby on Rails is more structured and arguably faster to develop in than straight PHP. Ruby is a more advanced, and somewhat better designed, language than PHP is, and Rails takes full advantage of Ruby's feature set.

But this comes at a cost of being more complex and difficult to grasp. If you can get to grips with Rails, I suspect you'll find that you'll be far more productive than with plain PHP, since Rails has a lot of functionality that makes life a lot easier for web developers. But that's only once you've learnt the framework, and whilst there are numerous tutorials and articles on Rails, you may find some parts difficult to learn.

Komodo

Hmm.... I'm definitely gonna look into it...

tAK

Was just having a play with their online tutorial system, its rather nice really.

But, i personally find the syntax to be a little off putting. PHP has more niggles (needing an ; to end everything line, and {} brackets for loops, and i am sure there are others)

Though, that said, Ruby seems entirely learn able in a very short amount of time.. what i dont understand, is why they are not pushing its existence a little more..

everyone knows of the major languages (perl, php, C/C++/C#, VB etc) but i can honestly say, that whilst the site claims ruby has existed since 1995.. i have never heard of it until now, a pitty really.. as had i known it was around a year ago, and see that online demo, i might have picked it up isntead of PHP..

DaWei

Check the specs on a '95 machine....

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