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Well, we hope that we can popularize Rails to better approach the "it just works on every server everywhere" PHP ubiquity. And what's, er, worse? PHP everywher
by codinghorror 14y ago
Well, we hope that we can popularize Rails to better approach the "it just works on every server everywhere" PHP ubiquity.
And what's, er, worse? PHP everywhere, or Ruby everywhere?
- mikey_p 14y agoI'm pretty sure the real threat is unpatched apps, regardless of what language they're written in (which was tomjen3's point). I'm concerned that the relative complexity of upgrading a Rails app with bundler and application server, webserver, etc is significant compared to the steps to upgrade the average PHP app (copy the new files over the old ones). Then again, perhaps an even bigger threat is people who feel smug about security due to their choice of programming language, which is what you seem to be hinting at.
- davidmurdoch 14y ago"If your hosting account is listed as Shared Hosting, you cannot install Ruby on Rails." - GoDaddy. I dislike PHP as much as the next guy, but if your goal really is ubiquity, you've forgotten a decently large segment of the e-population. :-/