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Test Your MightA Framework Showdown

Monday, October 19, 2009

Symfony Virtuoso

Brent ShafferRails Ninja

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Why Ruby is Awesome

It’s intuitive

guesses are usually correct

Very readable and concise

Chain methods (try that in PHP!)

"Hello, world!".reverse.upcase.split.first=> "!DLROW"


Why Ruby is Awesome

Everything is an object! (pure OOP)

"Hello, world!".reverse=> "!dlrow ,olleH"

12.5.floor=> 12

["e", "b", "d", "c", "a"].sort=> ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e"]


Why Ruby is Awesome

Awesome Syntax

Method punctuation (is_admin?, delete!)

Curly braces not required

Optional parenthesis for method calls

Instance variables are nothing special

Implicit method returns

NO SEMICOLONS!!!!


Why Ruby is Awesome


Why Ruby is Awesome

Blocks5.times do |x| puts x * 2end

["1", "2", "3", "4"].each do |x| p x.to_iend

10.downto(1) do |x| puts "Number: #{x}"end


Why Ruby is Awesome

Great for scripting

maintenance tasks

convenience scripts


Why PHP is Awesome

PHP jobs vastly outnumber Ruby jobs

Ubiquity

One-fifth of all open source code being written today is written in PHP.

PHP is installed on over 20 million websites and 1 million web servers


Why PHP is Awesome

Interpretive Language

Great for scripting

Evolving

Very Active Community


Why PHP is Awesome

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Why PHP is AwesomeBuilt-in Functions

C Extensions

PECL

Anonymous Functions / Namespacing


PHP SyntaxGet Over Yourself

$var = new MyClass();

$days = range(1, 31);

$class->each(function($i){ echo $i; });

$hash = array('this' => 'one', 'is' => 'associative');

$arr = array('this', 'is', 'an', 'array');

function is_best_language($lang) { return strtoupper($lang) == 'PHP'; }

var = MyClass.new

days = (1..31).to_a

myclass.each { |i| puts i }

hash = {'this' => 'one', 'is' => 'associative'}

arr = ['this', 'is', 'an', 'array']

def best_language?(lang) lang.downcase == 'ruby' end

PHP Ruby


Why PHP is AwesomeCoincidence??


Why Rails is Awesome

It uses Ruby!

MVC FTW

Rails community is awesome



RubyGems

bundled code libraries

rmagick, haml, capistrano, etc.

Plugins

authlogic, exception notifier, etc.



Convention over Configuration

it makes logical assumptions

db table names, file names, etc.



ActiveRecord ORM# get specified recordsUser.allUser.first

# get all users whose first name is "John"User.all(:conditions => ["name LIKE ?", "John"])

# get all users and their related profile record (eager load)User.all(:include => :profile)



Query caching - it’s automagic



Easy deployment with Capistrano

Testing - lots of choices

cucumber/rspec, shoulda, test::unit

Open-source


PHP Web Framework using the MVC Design Pattern

Doctrine ORM - based on Hibernate

Incorporates concepts from Mojavi (MVC implementation), Rails (routing) and many other open source projects

Why Symfony is Awesome


Why Symfony is AwesomeDoctrine ORM

// Magic Methods$results = Doctrine::getTable('User')->findAll();

// Hydration Methods$results = Doctrine::getTable('User') ->createQuery() ->where('count > ?', 2) ->execute(Doctrine::HYDRATE_ARRAY);

// Doctrine 2.0$results = User::findAll();

Symfony Components



Form Framework

Widgets and Validators

As complex or simple as you want

Easily handles difficult form logic

Optionally independent of models


Cascading Configurations

Project > Application > Module

Write your own handlers

Philosophy - Less Magic

Young Community

Quickly Evolving




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rails routing

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mvc design patterndoctrine

array doctrine