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Ruby

Posted by Aaron Endsley
Aaron Endsley
Courses Plus Student 17,625 Points

Ruby or php which one is better for web?

I am trying to decide which track i want to follow first after i complete the web design track and i was wanting to know what are the pros and cons of ruby or php?

6 Answers

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
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Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

Let me quote something helpful:

(...) Povolets notes that "[t]he likelihood that PHP is being used is strongly anti-correlated with company quality." (...)

Dan S
Dan S
1,966 Points
Dan S
Dan S
1,966 Points

Personal preference I think, but from experience its quicker to get up and running with PHP, but having used PHP for years, I find it more fun/rewarding using Rails.

Hope it helps

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

Go for Rails! I can't give you any pros and cons though, since I don't know PHP at all, I'm simply biased toward what I already know ;).

Aaron Endsley
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Aaron Endsley
Courses Plus Student 17,625 Points
Aaron Endsley
Aaron Endsley
Courses Plus Student 17,625 Points

Thank you very much looking forward to viewing more comments, I will probably try rails first, although i still plan to learn php. thank you so much for the comments.

J K
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J K
Courses Plus Student 10,046 Points
J K
J K
Courses Plus Student 10,046 Points

I'm still trying to decide whether to stay on Treehouse and learn PHP or Ruby. One online article will say to learn PHP, another will say to learn Ruby, it's so frustrating. One person on the forum suggested learning PHP first and then move on to Ruby and then Rails. There are only so many hours in the day so I'm still questioning which one is more beneficial to take on.