Comments on: GoDaddy.com Supports Ruby http://www.killersites.com/blog/2006/godaddy-supports-ruby/ Real world talk about web design, programming and the business of web design. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:21:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Stefan Mischook http://www.killersites.com/blog/2006/godaddy-supports-ruby/#comment-4445 Stefan Mischook Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:58:04 +0000 http://www.killersites.com/blog/2006/godaddy-supports-ruby/#comment-4445 @Henry, Have you used any php frameworks like CakePHP or the Zend Framework? To compare ROR (a framework buit with Ruby,) to the PHP language would to me seem unfair - we need to compare 'apples' to 'apples' if you know what I mean. @Henry,

Have you used any php frameworks like CakePHP or the Zend Framework?

To compare ROR (a framework buit with Ruby,) to the PHP language would to me seem unfair - we need to compare ‘apples’ to ‘apples’ if you know what I mean.

]]> By: Henry http://www.killersites.com/blog/2006/godaddy-supports-ruby/#comment-4441 Henry Wed, 04 Oct 2006 05:48:38 +0000 http://www.killersites.com/blog/2006/godaddy-supports-ruby/#comment-4441 In my experience of getting into RoR and building a custom shopping cart, I have found it to be a programmers dream come true. I can still understand my code even after coming back to it months later. I redid my PHP retail site with RoR (see www.ifactoryoutlet.com). After this experience I realized that with RoR you have to know a lot more about servers and deployment then I ever had to know with PHP. PHP just worked and it was rock solid..., provided your code was good. With RoR you have to know about apache, or starting and stopping lighttpd, or killing zombied fastcgi processes, ... you practically have to be a server administrator as well as a web developer, which is more than I really want to deal with. I've tried two different rails hosts (not textdrive yet, because they are expensive and the community seems like you need to be a do-it-yourself know-everything-about-linux guru to be using them, plus you can't develop on their servers), and experience more down time than I ever did with php hosts. Maybe it's the hosts or some jerk on the shared server, whatever it is I didn't have this issue with PHP. Still, after using RoR I can never go back to PHP (unless it's a one page script), and recommend all my friends to use RoR. There are just too many good things in Rails that I put up with the bugs in fastcgi in the hopes that in time enough smart people, people smarter than me, will get in there and fix whatever makes rails less stable than PHP. In my experience of getting into RoR and building a custom shopping cart, I have found it to be a programmers dream come true. I can still understand my code even after coming back to it months later. I redid my PHP retail site with RoR (see www.ifactoryoutlet.com).

After this experience I realized that with RoR you have to know a lot more about servers and deployment then I ever had to know with PHP. PHP just worked and it was rock solid…, provided your code was good.

With RoR you have to know about apache, or starting and stopping lighttpd, or killing zombied fastcgi processes, … you practically have to be a server administrator as well as a web developer, which is more than I really want to deal with. I’ve tried two different rails hosts (not textdrive yet, because they are expensive and the community seems like you need to be a do-it-yourself know-everything-about-linux guru to be using them, plus you can’t develop on their servers), and experience more down time than I ever did with php hosts. Maybe it’s the hosts or some jerk on the shared server, whatever it is I didn’t have this issue with PHP.

Still, after using RoR I can never go back to PHP (unless it’s a one page script), and recommend all my friends to use RoR. There are just too many good things in Rails that I put up with the bugs in fastcgi in the hopes that in time enough smart people, people smarter than me, will get in there and fix whatever makes rails less stable than PHP.

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