What should I Learn Ruby on Rails or CakePHP?

Question

I'm a front end web designer just starting to venture into back end web development. I'm having trouble deciding what I should learn. I've narrowed it down to CakePHP or Ruby on Rails. I don't have any experience with PHP or Ruby.

I have a basic understanding of programming concepts from a few classes I took in college. So which one of these frameworks do you think is the easiest to learn for a beginner?

Answer 1

In my opinion I think you should learn CakePHP. Apart from the fact you can option it to have more secure code in no matter what aspect of programming you are working on, CakePHP does not require any understanding of PHP to fully grasp the MVC of the language. On the other hand, RoR is much slower in the aspect if you were gearing your web design towards speed.

CakePHP also gives the user a better budget to work with where as RoR can be a little pricey when trying to find a good host depending on what you are going to be using these environments.

Last but not least, CakePHP is just downright easier than RoR. Both in the subject of time consuming where CakePHP is a snap to set up and run from the comfort of your home computer's server, and not have to worry about downloading a ton of mess and letting RoR's environment eat away at your system's resources.

Hope I helped,

Fearliss

Answer 2

If you've worked most with HTML so far, PHP will probably be easiest for you.  PHP stands for PHP is a Hyptertext Preprocessor.  PHP is also well regarded and increasingly ubiquitous.  I'd start there.