Ruby on Rails Gets on the cPanel
One of my concerns about it was how many hosts are available. Last night I did quick search and found out Ruby on Rails now has many many hosts, and it has been integrated into the cPanel as well. You can view a full list here of Ruby on Rails hosts. And to my surprise as well, my HostGator have already added support for it.
Full details about how to use Ruby on Rails with Hostgator through SSH is available here. Guess that rules out one of the reasons why I thought PHP Symfony would be easier to manage. The quest continues however as to which one is better. I started to like Ruby on Rails, but general comment is that Ruby by nature is slower than PHP. Then I came across the PHP Symfony framework which is also amazing, cleaner in certain aspects like the syntax, class files and database creation. However it is still new, and there is the CakePHP competitor for it. On the other hand, Ruby on Rails seems to be expanding fast, I would like to be among the people who start with it, and it’s heavily pushed by the community, already many high quality books are published about it. So I am a bit inclined to the RoR road. Any second opinion and discussion is welcome on this.
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Hi Bashar,
Seems that you don’t know the Akelos PHP Framework yet.
If you like RoR but want the portability of PHP apps, you should have a look at it.
We still have a small but growing community.
If you are interested in knowing how different are all the above Frameworks from Rails, you should have a look to this comparison.
Don’t miss the screencast to have a quick overview on what Akelos is ready for.
@Bojacoob: You are right, PHP has the advantage of syntax similarity. I am trying to explore which one suits me most at the end.
@Bermi: Thank you very much for this insightful comment. Pardon me if I never heard of Akelos before I will be giving it a look.
Comparison results are really interesting for Akelos, but as I expected it still lacks the community. What this comparison lack to be closer to perfect is Symfony and RoR (even though it’s not PHP).
Ruby on Rails is pretty sweet, but sometimes it’s just so damn simple it KILLS you!
I’d still recommend you stay with PHP, mostly because of the similarities it has with other languages such as Perl or Python. Ruby is a little too different.
Besides, there’s plenty of frameworks for PHP such as CakePHP as you mentioned, Symfony, Smarty, and so forth.