[Hidden-tech] Rudy on Rails

[Rich]

There is a major cost in moving to a new language -- and as Fred says, 
ROR is a combination of language and framework, the real power
comes from what the framework provides -- the ROR team as done a great 
job, it is a shame they are tied to the Ruby language - why ?
I won't get into language debates - for this discussion, all that counts 
is that it is not commonly known and whole new world
for too many.

As for PHP, there are a number of frameworks:
    The two top ones (IMHO) are:
               Symfony    http://www.symfony-project.com/
 and       Cake           http://www.cakephp.org/

We did some work on a web interface to make Symfony even easier
it is at: http://conductor.tnrnet.com/ 
       (the release set there is a bit messy, there was a crack in 
server with the wiki and we didn't reconstruct it all)

If anyone would like to discuss symfony more, email me offline

Rich

hiddentec at p98n.com wrote:
>
> To clear up some confusion, "Ruby on Rails" is not a programming 
> language, it's a framework for developing web applications that 
> happens to be written in and targeted for the "Ruby" programming 
> language:
>     http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
>
> There are some analogous Perl projects; e.g. Catalyst, and Jifty:
>     http://www.catalystframework.org/
>     http://jifty.org
>
> The idea of all of these is to make it easier to create web-based 
> applications by providing standard methods - and code - for doing 
> things most web applications need to do - e.g. authentication, session 
> management, etc.
>   -Fred
>

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Rich Roth
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