Bill Venners comments on David Heinemeier Hansson’s justification for using integers in URLs instead of semantic strings in Ruby On Rails. As an example, if you look at the URL of the Help of this blog, it is http://ifacethoughts.net/help. As against this, using integers would give you http://ifacethoughts.net/564 where 564 is the database ID of the page for help. [Continue]
I am completely with Ted Dzuiba when he says that PHP is not that bad. There have been a lot of comparisons between PHP and Ruby or for some reason with Ruby on Rails. You do have CakePHP if you like RoR’s idea.! [Continue]
Matthew Magain suggests that PHP developers are most likely to adopt Rails. I don’t see any specific reason, apart from the fact that PHP developers are already used to the open source environment. Otherwise PHP has more off-the-shelf functionalities/packages available. [Continue]