On Nov 4, 3:02 pm, Eaden McKee <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm interested to know if developers on this list considered learning > ruby on rails and if they did what were the roadblocks? > For me, I was 'throwing away' my years of PHP experience which was a > touch decision but not one I regret.
I first started using Rails just over a year ago and am now a complete fanatic. My interest started from working with Symfony and the profound effect that adopting test driven development had on my work. After finding out that a lot of the inspiration for Symfony came from Rails I decided to have a look at it, and haven't looked back since. I don't think the argument of 'throwing away' experience in another language holds true. I tend to find the patterns from one language or framework inspire you to work in new ways with the others you know. I'd highly recommend those that like the PHP MVC frameworks who haven't looked at Rails to look at it, and for that matter Django. My original background was in Perl, and whilst I don't miss it it's nice to work with a more complete language again. I've been thinking for a while of giving a Rails demo to interested developers here in Christchurch, would be good to get a feel if there is any interest from the PHP community. Malc -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
