For those who subscribe to Matz’s website, the PHP vs Ruby was a hot topic.
My background is:
- I had basic skills in PHP without OOP.
- I started to learn a MVC framework in PHP (i.e., symfony).
I just spent a day with ruby. I started to feel the programmer’s happiness.
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I too am learning Ruby and
I too am learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails now. My background is in PHP with knowledge of various frameworks but Ruby and especially Rails is so much nicer to code.
I would suggest you look at my del.icio.us bookmarks, I have collected a bunch of good resources to begin with Ruby and Rails.
http://del.icio.us/halbtuerke/ruby
Greetings and happy coding. ;)
I use PHP at work every day,
I use PHP at work every day, and although I’m productive and knowledgeable with it, Ruby has made my personal programming jobs much more fun, and is now my language of choice wherever I can use it.
That and Python, but that’s neither here nor there.
(I’m the author of the Attacking PHP article.)