After many years of frustration developing PHP applications
I was looking for a web framework to invest my time in. As had given up building my own I loked at the many options in PHP.
I saw Rails and was impressed but was not so keen on learning yet another language. I tried cake code ignitor among others
and found them to be missing something important that I could not quite figure out. While attendting Apple’s WWDC 2006 in San Francisco, I saw some great demos with Rails, and saw Apple adding it to OS X Leopard. Later that day I found myself at Borders Books buying Agile Web Development with Rails.
I have now digested th 1st and 2nd editions as well as rails recipes and am now going through Programming Ruby.
I am now a total convert, Ruby and Rails have made me a better programmer and have allowed me to build vey effective web applications in a fraction of the time a PHP application would take. I recently joined a team of developers working on a code igniter project, and realised how painful PHP really is after working with Rails. This project has now come back to us with the client requesting migration to rails. I have inadvertantly
landed exactly where I want to thanks to Rails.
So this leads me to my goal of truely mastering Ruby on Rails a path I am already striding down with confidence and satisfaction.
