I work with CodeIgniter a lot, in fact I am coding a web app right now in CI. I have not found it to be limiting, given the capability to extend or replace any CI function. I personally love CI and would say that my code is fairly self documenting. I'd like to hear more about what Craig has to say about PHP vs. RoR. I have not made the switch yet, because there have been no business drivers to change, but if Craig wouldn't mind explaining more, I am very interested...

Eric

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 5:20 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020@yahoo.com> wrote:

After taking a quick look at RoR - http://oreilly.com/ruby/archive/rails.html , it looks a lot like CodeIgniter.  Any CodeIgniter users?  Does that sound right?



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Keith Smith


--- On Sun, 2/21/10, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:

> From: Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com>
> Subject: Re: Re:
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Date: Sunday, February 21, 2010, 4:01 PM
> On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 07:34 -0800,
> keith smith wrote:
>
> > Interesting statement that using a framework for Ruby
> would be 4 times faster than coding in raw PHP.  Have
> you used a PHP Framework? And if so did that speed up your
> development?
> ----
> no I haven't and I am aware of cake.php (and django for
> python).
>
> But if you think about, cake still has php as its
> underlying code base
> and with Rails, you not only get the framework but you get
> the OOP code
> base and it's elegance and readability which makes it so
> much easier to
> develop with and immensely easier to pick up even code
> months later
> (commented or uncommented) and discern what it does.
>
> PHP is comparatively messy and unstructured. I would
> suggest that
> cake.php is just putting lipstick on a pig.
>
> What you will find is that if your experience is .Net or
> PHP, that RoR
> makes web development fun again.
>
> Craig
>
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