2 years ago

Learn about new features, changes, and improvements to UpGuard: Ruby and PHP are two of today’s best-known and widely used languages for web development. There are some major similarities between them – they are both dynamically typed, meaning you don’t need to declare variables before using them, they both have exceptions and private and public classes, and they both have extensive standard libraries to call on.

This one characteristic makes Ruby on Rails a powerful development platform, but the flipside is that Ruby is also more complex to implement and more difficult to learn for beginners.

There is also a much larger market for PHP developers – on a single day in December 2012 there were 305 job postings on Monster.com for PHP developers, vs. 138 for Ruby developers (and that’s Ruby in general, not specifically Ruby on Rails).

PHP is easier to learn and in much more widely used, though it is not as powerful as Ruby.