I plan to write a series of posts about how we develop, deploy, and support our affiliate software and digital downloads applications. And why, after 5 years of Ruby on Rails development we switched back to PHP. One of the reasons is what I refer to as the shelf life of a web application. Let’s […]
PHP vs Ruby :: 2012 Year End Review

Back in 2007 I wrote an article titled PHP vs Ruby – Practical Language Differences which drew a fair amount of attention. Now that I’ve been working with Ruby in much more depth and both PHP and Ruby have matured dramatically over the past five years it is time to reevaluate the comparison.
John 3:16 In PHP and Ruby
John 3:16 in PHP $son = $god->loved($the_world); foreach($whosoever as $person) { if($person->believe($son)) { $son->everlasting_life($person); } } John 3:16 in Ruby son = god.loved(the_world) whosoever.each do |person| son.everlasting_life!(person) if person.believe?(son) end