To Sean and all; I'm going to try something new, post all my "questions" I know I want to ask up front. Since this is an intense technical topic that is of great interest to most of us, I though hay lets get the ball rolling on the list then tie up the thread(s) at the talk:
1) What Rails over PHP? PHP has been vetted and scaled to large systems ( Slash dot, Digg, etc ) why learn yet another language? 2) Can Rails scale? PHP has gone trought the growing pains to do so, again more of a part 2 of question 1, technicaly is rails faster? us less resources? easyer? 3) PHP has pre-canned frameworks like Drupal, Joomla! and Moodle what does Rails have? Or is a Rails program always from scratch? 4) PHP has evolved like Perl has, there is a plugin for anything and everything, what does Rails have? and how extensive is it? 5) You need to learn Rails fast, you only get to pick one book, what book would you pick? 6) Please post your Rails questions to this thread and your answers ( if you have them ) Joe Apuzzo Gnu_Joe _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Dec 3 - Lightning Talks & Swap Session
