Tuesday April 15, 2008
Pragmatic released a book a while ago called Rails for PHP Developers. Moving from PHP to ruby has been quite a challenge. Not because ruby or rails is difficult to pick up, but in my years of development I've mainly used c like languages, PHP Java, c, c++, etc. Ruby is not like any of these, it tends to take a whole different approach to development.Is this a bad thing? Well not when you finally get your head around how ruby does things.
This is where this book helped out a lot! I read the first few chapters on the train on the way to work and home, and it helped me understand the key differences between PHP and Ruby.. So If your making the move, its really worth your time. Hell, what is $40?? Maybe one hour of work or two if your a manager at McDonald's? This book has easily saved me countless hours of Google research and many many lines of bad code from being written!!
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