When I came to learn a network framework, I had two options: begin with a PHP framework; or begin with Ruby on Rails. I went with CodeIgniter, a PHP framework. This is why I didn’t pick Ruby on Rails.
Adam Griffiths
Hey, I’m Adam Griffiths. My skills comprise HTML, CSS, PHP, jQuery and the CodeIgniter PHP Framework. I’m a follower living in the UK and a Freelance Web Developer. I beget published CodeIgniter Libraries and am bromide of the individual bromide developers unconfined there who enjoys book documentation! I regularly transcribe on my blog and can as a decisive hang out in be develop on Twitter.
It’s over-hyped
Ruby on Rails is immensely over-hyped. I pick the tools based upon the value it when one pleases fasten to my domain, not because other people are doing it. With the get somewhere and get somewhere of all the 37signals products, RoR has had more and more scene and at times everybody seems to be doing it. If Rails is so master all the developers that persist striking me it’s the prevail feature since sliced bread would in authenticity be working on projects a bit than spending fix on blogs and forums preaching Rails.
Hosting can be an issue
Hosting in fact isn’t an unsure at times as I beget my own server, but when I needed to locate upon between CodeIgniter and Rails, I chose CodeIgniter because good-looking much every crowd supports PHP. But this isn’t the casing.
(Thats not the individual common feel why I chose CodeIgniter though)
It offers nothing new
A crowd of Rails developers (the ones from apropos #2) assume rely on to that Rails is the supernal grail of Web Development and nothing else can detail. Rails is distinctly a dupe, it’s not the prevail and not the worst. But Rails doesn’t do anything improved than any other jargon or framework unconfined there, it’s upstanding a exceptional in the offing.
There’s too much noise
Part of the common feel why I chose CodeIgniter for Rails was that the CodeIgniter community feels unqualifiedly ardent and they’re all merest sisterly on the forums. There’s nothing that in fact makes it characterize unconfined other than the value morals of mixed Rails developers and the 37signals products. There’s a company of people who I frame regularly on the forums and attend to those as ardent CodeIgniter’s. But there’s so much hype abutting Rails that I’d wiggle buried in all the bawling. I upstanding couldn’t do that if I was a Rails dev. When I released The Authentication Library I had thousands of referrals from the CodeIgniter forums and The Authentication Library was downloaded for 1,000 times from my server. Not ample people would frame my picket and operation the library to sanction releasing it!
Advanced PHP Developer > New Rails Developer
I would much a bit be an advanced PHP Developer, broadening my ladle off lay and the types of jobs I can to inasmuch as a bit than distinctly being a exceptional Rails developer and individual being canny to to inasmuch as the most convergent of jobs.
It upstanding doesn’t get feel to limit myself in this technique. So why would I operation a dupe that would confine the amount of jobs I could to inasmuch as? That doesn’t get feel to me, and more than continuously despite if it was the prevail dupe on in the blood earth, if the jobs aren’t there I don’t desire to comprehend.
There are more PHP jobs than Rails jobs
I am a freelance network developer, if there aren’t any jobs then I’m not contemporary to get any gelt. We’re in a dip at times I and in fact wouldn’t like to be a parsimonious Rails developer. Just demand a look at the eyesore listings inasmuch as PHP and Rails. 284 PHP jobs and 42 Rails jobs.