“Both PHP and Ruby on Rails are widely accepted technologies of the industry but what makes them differ from each other is their age or experience in the industry. PHP is an old language that was brought to the industry with a high vision and ambition to challenge the monopoly of technologies like Java and .NET. With its inception, the industry found an outstanding product that can help in building highly economic and powerful web applications using PHP in less time and effort as compared to JSP or ASP. On the contrary, Ruby on Rails is a technology that born recently to provide better customization offerings along with quality modern features to grasp the attention of web developers in the industry. RoR has received a remarkable popularity from the industry due to its highly flexible and easy approach to handle complicated web situations among the web developers. Though, both these technologies are serving the web industry with utmost care still there are few uniqueness and loopholes present and those make them differ from each other. Here are how?”
Ease of use and implement: Undoubtedly PHP has an outstanding track record of being easy-to-code for the developers. The syntax of PHP is extremely easy to remember for a web developer due to their similarities with real life words. Hence, PHP has been treated as the best choice for fresher and newbie who want to kick start their career in the web industry. On the contrary, Ruby on Rails has very much similar syntax as that of PHP. In fact, most of its syntaxes are highly similar-to and inspired-from PHP syntax itself; but, the difference is the code length. Since Ruby on Rails is more than a language and indeed it is a language-framework combo, hence it provides enough libraries, classes and functions to make the development process not only faster but also effective. With its inbuilt functions and libraries, the developer finds it easy to write Ruby codes over the Rails framework in a hassle free way.
Performance prospective: Performance is one of the important criteria while choosing a technology from its peers. As a core language, PHP always stands ahead in terms of performance when compared to Ruby on Rails. In PHP, everything is at a lower degree of complexity and it’s the task of the developer to make it perfect with his coding experience, expertise and efficiency. RoR, on the other hand, has incorporated functions and classes which might make the coding experience better; but when we consider the performance, it will definitely fall behind PHP. How? Suppose there is a function in RoR for sorting an array of inputs; when the Ruby developer writes the corresponding method on the platform (IDE); the platform tries to find out the library or file within which the method definition is present. Then, the pointer moves to that method for definition and executes the sorting operation. On the other hand, same operations can be directly called from the inline function in PHP; this reduces the unnecessary instructions to fetch the location and method definition from a remote place. As a result, the process becomes more efficient and effective and the performance is amplified.
Systematic approach: Planning makes an operation near to perfection if not the perfect. Hence, in the industry planning is always given more priority for any web project. It helps in assuming and estimating approximate risk, resources and problems that may require more attention from the developers. So, it is always better to get prepared for the situation in advance than to face it during the development process as a surprise. In this perspective, Ruby on Rails looks prominent and promising as compared to PHP due to its intrinsic architecture that encourages Ruby developers in crafting efficient web applications in a systematic approach. Its core architecture always helps in creating web solutions in an efficient and systematic procedure to avoid unnecessary stress, burden and chances of failures in the application development project. With PHP, this is absolutely not possible without the experience and high effort from the web developer. Here, there is no predefined and trusted approach to move-on in the development process rather the PHP developer needs to design and define the approach by him. This is the biggest disadvantage of any language as against a framework. Though, PHP developers can make this possible with the help of enterprise standard PHP frameworks like zend, symfony, laravel and cakePHP, etc.; but this is not possible with the core PHP language.
Scalability is a concern: Agile methodology has received incredible popularity in the industry due to its on-the-spot productivity. With agile methodology, a web application comes to the live stage from the very beginning with less features but that enables it to be productive for any business. With PHP and RoR this is possible; but what makes them different is the approach. PHP needs extensive coding to make an application development process to be scalable; whereas RoR is already provided by its inbuilt architecture for this purpose which is highly reliable and tested one.
Productivity: With RoR, the Ruby developer becomes much more productive as compared to any PHP web developer who works on PHP core language. This is nevertheless to say that, a language is usually low in productive as compared to any framework due to presence of the in-build smart IDE, plug-ins, in-built methods and modules within the platform. And these features severely help web developers in building enterprise standard web solutions on the fly.
Resource availability: Availability of resources makes sense if they are open source and free. Fortunately, both the technologies are free and open source; but, the amount of resources available for PHP is simply way ahead to that of RoR. This is due to its old age and more experience in the industry. These resources can definitely help PHP developers in getting their job done with less effort and time by little modification or twist to the existing source code from the web.
Future ready: Both PHP and RoR support all types of modern amenities including mobile friendly app development using HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery etc. Along with that, Cloud support, cross platform design, and responsive app development is possible; but these can be easily handled in RoR due to presence of inherent plug-ins and modules while it needs some extra effort from the PHP developers in creating the required atmosphere by themselves.
Final words: Keeping all above perquisites of RoR, it is clear that, Ruby on Rails dominates PHP in almost every sector; but we must understand the limitations of PHP as a language as compared to a language-framework combo i.e. RoR.
Ease of use and implement: Undoubtedly PHP has an outstanding track record of being easy-to-code for the developers. The syntax of PHP is extremely easy to remember for a web developer due to their similarities with real life words. Hence, PHP has been treated as the best choice for fresher and newbie who want to kick start their career in the web industry. On the contrary, Ruby on Rails has very much similar syntax as that of PHP. In fact, most of its syntaxes are highly similar-to and inspired-from PHP syntax itself; but, the difference is the code length. Since Ruby on Rails is more than a language and indeed it is a language-framework combo, hence it provides enough libraries, classes and functions to make the development process not only faster but also effective. With its inbuilt functions and libraries, the developer finds it easy to write Ruby codes over the Rails framework in a hassle free way.Performance prospective: Performance is one of the important criteria while choosing a technology from its peers. As a core language, PHP always stands ahead in terms of performance when compared to Ruby on Rails. In PHP, everything is at a lower degree of complexity and it’s the task of the developer to make it perfect with his coding experience, expertise and efficiency. RoR, on the other hand, has incorporated functions and classes which might make the coding experience better; but when we consider the performance, it will definitely fall behind PHP. How? Suppose there is a function in RoR for sorting an array of inputs; when the Ruby developer writes the corresponding method on the platform (IDE); the platform tries to find out the library or file within which the method definition is present. Then, the pointer moves to that method for definition and executes the sorting operation. On the other hand, same operations can be directly called from the inline function in PHP; this reduces the unnecessary instructions to fetch the location and method definition from a remote place. As a result, the process becomes more efficient and effective and the performance is amplified.
Systematic approach: Planning makes an operation near to perfection if not the perfect. Hence, in the industry planning is always given more priority for any web project. It helps in assuming and estimating approximate risk, resources and problems that may require more attention from the developers. So, it is always better to get prepared for the situation in advance than to face it during the development process as a surprise. In this perspective, Ruby on Rails looks prominent and promising as compared to PHP due to its intrinsic architecture that encourages Ruby developers in crafting efficient web applications in a systematic approach. Its core architecture always helps in creating web solutions in an efficient and systematic procedure to avoid unnecessary stress, burden and chances of failures in the application development project. With PHP, this is absolutely not possible without the experience and high effort from the web developer. Here, there is no predefined and trusted approach to move-on in the development process rather the PHP developer needs to design and define the approach by him. This is the biggest disadvantage of any language as against a framework. Though, PHP developers can make this possible with the help of enterprise standard PHP frameworks like zend, symfony, laravel and cakePHP, etc.; but this is not possible with the core PHP language.
Scalability is a concern: Agile methodology has received incredible popularity in the industry due to its on-the-spot productivity. With agile methodology, a web application comes to the live stage from the very beginning with less features but that enables it to be productive for any business. With PHP and RoR this is possible; but what makes them different is the approach. PHP needs extensive coding to make an application development process to be scalable; whereas RoR is already provided by its inbuilt architecture for this purpose which is highly reliable and tested one.
Productivity: With RoR, the Ruby developer becomes much more productive as compared to any PHP web developer who works on PHP core language. This is nevertheless to say that, a language is usually low in productive as compared to any framework due to presence of the in-build smart IDE, plug-ins, in-built methods and modules within the platform. And these features severely help web developers in building enterprise standard web solutions on the fly.
Resource availability: Availability of resources makes sense if they are open source and free. Fortunately, both the technologies are free and open source; but, the amount of resources available for PHP is simply way ahead to that of RoR. This is due to its old age and more experience in the industry. These resources can definitely help PHP developers in getting their job done with less effort and time by little modification or twist to the existing source code from the web.
Future ready: Both PHP and RoR support all types of modern amenities including mobile friendly app development using HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery etc. Along with that, Cloud support, cross platform design, and responsive app development is possible; but these can be easily handled in RoR due to presence of inherent plug-ins and modules while it needs some extra effort from the PHP developers in creating the required atmosphere by themselves.
Final words: Keeping all above perquisites of RoR, it is clear that, Ruby on Rails dominates PHP in almost every sector; but we must understand the limitations of PHP as a language as compared to a language-framework combo i.e. RoR.
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