Comments on: CakePHP vs Ruby on Rails http://www.tanasi.it/1071-cakephp-vs-ruby-on-rails.html Alessandro `jekil` Tanasi blog Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:09:21 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jack http://www.tanasi.it/1071-cakephp-vs-ruby-on-rails.html/comment-page-1#comment-381 jack Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:17:02 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress/?p=1007#comment-381 The issue of scalability is an extremely complex one, involving many factors. Speed is only one of the many factors that needs to be taken into account with thinking about scalability. PHP may be faster than Ruby (on Rails), but that does not make PHP more scalable. Look at the Ruby on Rails. It's far easier to integrate new functionality into an application than it is to do the same with PHP. It is also far easier to update plugins and gems. In PHP you'd have an utter nightmare doing that. That is also scalability, and unless you are running a massively successful site (keep dreaming), maintainability is far more important than any thought of speed. The issue of scalability is an extremely complex one, involving many factors. Speed is only one of the many factors that needs to be taken into account with thinking about scalability. PHP may be faster than Ruby (on Rails), but that does not make PHP more scalable.

Look at the Ruby on Rails. It’s far easier to integrate new functionality into an application than it is to do the same with PHP. It is also far easier to update plugins and gems. In PHP you’d have an utter nightmare doing that. That is also scalability, and unless you are running a massively successful site (keep dreaming), maintainability is far more important than any thought of speed.

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