[keith smith]

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 at azapple.com> wrote:

> From: Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>
> Subject: Re: Re:
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at 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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