Here are my answers to your question, in order: Pleasant is very subjective. PHP is closer as syntax, but more far away as OO concepts go. There is no best in either case. MVC or MVP frameworks are numerous. Rails is just one of them. For PHP I could recommend CakePHP or Laravel. Mayb...
Since nobody explained, resource request questions are generally off-topic on StackExchange, and not a great fit for QA websites (there is no objective 'best' place to get Ruby resources). I'll throw you a bone though, and say that probably the best Ruby reference is the Pickaxe Book....
Is Ruby on Rails a suitable framework for a desktop application? Is there too much abstraction in the Ruby on Rails community? Is Rails 3 ready for use in production? Is there a canonical book on Ruby on Rails? Developing Salesforce apps in Ruby on Rails Inspecting the model in a Rail...
I have misconception in understanding the relationship between Ruby language and Ruby on Rails Framework. Because of 'I am an absolute beginner' in web development I have no idea if I have to grasp the fundamentals of Ruby before I go with Ruby on Rails! I also want to ask who is behi...
I'm php, Ruby on Rails and HTML5 developer I need some advises and suggestions for a web portal project that I will build from scratch. This is my first time to build a web portal, Which developing scripting language you prefer and why? and how I should start planing my project as it ...
which is based on PHP. I'm trying to test Wiki system using RoR. However, when googling, I found wiki on RoR, not wiki implemented with RoR. What wiki systems on RoR are available? What is the most popular?
I'm working on a rails application, and I've been pulling functionality out of my rails code and into pure ruby classes in lib/. I've found myself often writing classes like this: class MailchimpIntegration def subscribe_email(email, fname, lname) Gibbon.list_subscribe(:id => NEWSLETT...
I'm writing a new app and want to try a new language. I need something that wont leak memory. I need dictionaries like C# or hash tables like php. I like good documentation. I like don't like PHP's function naming conventions example (sstrstrchr_reverse and ereg_replace sux. I like in...