Rails Vs CakePHP

PHP Vs Ruby CakePHP Vs Ruby On Rails Gautam Rege A brief debate between PHP and Ruby, CakePHP and Rails

About Me
Gautam Rege
Director @ Josh Software Pvt. Ltd.
9+ years software experience.
Rubyist & Entrepreneur
@gautamrege
http://gautamrege.wordpress.com
Josh Software
Ruby On Rails, Ruby On Rails, Ruby On Rails
Little bit of J2EE and .NET

Am I out of place??
What will you gain by listening in on the debate between 2 RAD frameworks?
Is this about Rails propaganda?
Do you have rotten tomatoes to throw?
Don't throw shoes and make me famous! ;)

Ruby – Overview
Object Oriented Scripting language.
Classes, Objects, instance methods etc.
Blocks (yield)
Simple 'Duck Typing' using 'responds_to'
Mixins
Simplicity of single inheritance
Power of multiple inhertitance
Meta-programming !

Ruby On Rails - Overview
Framework built in Ruby (obviously)
MVC pattern
RESTful
ORM using ActiveRecord
Inbuilt Caching
Object Caching
Query Caching
Fragment Caching

What do we discuss now?
PHP Vs Ruby
CakePHP Vs Rails
What is Ruby and Ruby On Rails?

PHP Vs Ruby
Patched Obj. Oriented
??
Reflection & Meta-programing ??
??
Extremely Popular !
Tons of people
Pure Object Oriented
Easy to read !!
Inherent reflection & meta-programing use
Code blocks
Gaining popularity
Small community

TIOBE Programing Community Index – Jan 2010

Relative Language Popularity over 5, 10, 25 years

Programing Community Index

CakePHP Vs Ruby On Rails
CakePHP has been inspired by Ruby On Rails.
Modeling, Routing is similar
IDEAL for PHP programmers who
Do not have a choice but to use PHP
Do not want to learn a new language.
Why not try the real thing?

AppModel
Associative Arrays
$user['User']['first_name']
Relationships
belongs_to
has_many
has_one
has_and_belongs_to_many
'on the fly' relations
bindModel
ActiveRecord
Ruby Objects
@user.first_name
Relationships
belongs_to
has_many
has_one
has_many :through => …
meta-programing

AppController
AppController
set() method to access data from controller in a view.
??
html
AJAX
$ajax->link
ActionController
ActionView
Instance Variables in controller 'magically' available in views.
responds_to? | format |
html, xml, json, js
AJAX
link_to_remote

What I found missing in CakePHP aka – Rails rocks! ;)
Migrations are missing or not not recommended.
Even the tutorials do not use migrations but raw SQL.
No mention of deployment.
Guess its a standard Apache + mod_php setup.
Use of associative arrays instead of objects
$user['user']['first_name'] instead of @user.first_name

What I found missing in CakePHP aka – Rails rocks ! ;)
No support for RESTful routes
map.resources :users
Provides CRUD for User model
/users ( GET | POST )
/users/:id ( GET | DELETE)
/users/:id/edit (PUT)

What I found missing in CakePHP aka – Rails rocks ! ;)
There is still a lot of code visible.
Lot of configuration
Lot of coding / views etc. etc.
DEMONSTRATION of the Rails way ??

Demonstration - Blog
Create a web application for blog posts.
A post has a Title and some body text.
A post may be published optionally.
We should be able to create a post.
We should be able to edit a post.
We should be able to delete a post.
We should be able to list all posts.
All information should be stored in database.

Time and Effort Estimate
How much TIME would you take for this?
How many LINES OF CODE would you write?
Modules:
Database configuration
Database Schema
Logic for posts
HTML design
Testing

Ruby On Rails I hereby promise that we shall develop the blog application WITHOUT TYPING A SINGLE LINE OF CODE in 1 MINUTE.

Steps
Create a rails project
Create the “post” scaffold
Update the database
Start the server
Test it out
Create a post
Edit a post

Satisfied?
Are we ever satisfied?
NOW lets add some fancy stuff to this.
Lets add some validation
A post cannot be created without a title.
NOW we do a little bit of coding !!

Satisfied NOW??
No?
Alright! Now you are becoming a programmer!
Lets add some UI styles to make it look better
Some more 'coding' here!

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