Rails for PHP Developers
Derek DeVires, Mike Naberezny
The Pragmatic Bookshelf, 406 pp.
ISBN 978-1-934356-04-3
Reviewed by Brandon Ching

As a long time PHP developer, the advent of Ruby on Rails as a mainstream web development platform never quite peaked my interests; nor the interest of the majority of developers I have worked with over the years. The running joke being that if we simply used Ruby instead of PHP, there would most certainly be a buildEntireProject() method that would do all of our work for us. However, times change, and as developers it is our responsibility to explore new and different methods of getting work done; no matter how fruitless our initial expectations are. Read the rest of this entry »

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