Ruby on Rails

[madddidley]

I just recently heard about Ruby and now the Rails. From what I understand it is a server side language and rails is like a framework for it. My question is....Whats the point of Ruby? There are many languages out there so why would someone choose Ruby? What are the benefits if there are any? I've made apps with perl and php, and those seemed to work fine for me. I'm just curious to see what people think.

Thanks
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[madddidley]

I guess no one has ever heard of Ruby or Rails. Hmm....

[drhowarddrfine]

Yet another language. Can't say I know. When I looked at a quick tutorial I was reminded of every other language. Some people love it but many people love perl, too.

[NogDog]

Probably the main advantage is that it is a true object-oriented language, whereas Perl and PHP are procedural languages for which some oject-oriented capabilities have been appended to them. It could therefore be a useful means of learning more about OO development; but if that's your interest I would recommend jumping right into Java, as it is much more widely used in the business world.

[madddidley]

Thanks, the OO programming was kind of appealing but I don't even know how to use the OOP capabilities in php. I guess its kind of pointless like you said considering all the options that are available to you. If its the OO you're looking for try Java its more widely used.