Comments on: “Learning from Ruby on Rails” published

By: Vancouver PHP Conference: Day 1 » S.S. Intrepid

Vancouver PHP Conference: Day 1 » S.S. Intrepid — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 03:30:26 +0000

[...] was it for me on Day 1! I thought about going to Chris Hartjes' talk, What PHP can learn from Ruby On Rails, but I just recently read the companion article in php|architect, so didn't feel I would learn [...]

By: Travis Swicegood

Travis Swicegood — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 17:38:16 +0000

Hi Chris – I just read your article this morning while at the local book shop enjoying some hot chocolate. It was a very interesting article and one I hope a lot of developers will take to heart.

I’ve only given cursory glances at Rails – read through intros, watched screen casts, etc – but it’s simplicity is very nice and, in my opinion, as yet unmatched in PHP.

I have some ideas on a framework that I’ve been playing with in my spare time. I would love to discuss it with you and get your feedback. If you’re interested, please feel free to drop my a line at the provided email address.

By: Chris Hartjes

Chris Hartjes — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 20:35:06 +0000

Hi Leighmac,

Thanks for the kind words. Being exposed to Rails really opened my eyes to how I was actually building my applications, and the concepts (like you have found) are easily transferable to PHP.

By: Leighmac

Leighmac — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:52:41 +0000

Hi Chris, I just read your article and really enjoyed it. Like yourself my code improved so much after building a couple of apps using ror and learning ruby. I just feel rejuvenated it’s kinda like taking a holiday.. now I’m back coding in php and using cakephp for my clients. I would acutally rather be coding in ruby but most of my clients are tied to php for the time being. Anyway great work and I look forward to reading more of your articles.