3 ms·
I hope to see whether Ruby could create a platform like Wordpress with that strong community. A simple plugin system for the world to use and extend. Is PHP str
by revskill 12y ago
I hope to see whether Ruby could create a platform like Wordpress with that strong community. A simple plugin system for the world to use and extend. Is PHP stronger Ruby ?
- deleted 12y ago[deleted]
- timdorr 12y agoPHP has more ubiquity, so it's a least common denominator sort of thing. You can find tons of hosts running a LAMP stack, but not so many supporting Ruby. That is mainly because the tooling needed to maintain a Ruby application server has some additional complexity over PHP, which is mostly plug-and-play. Passenger helps a lot with that, but it's nowhere near the distribution level of PHP, so that is restricting the ecosystem currently. Basically, most people looking to setup a WordPress install can't deal with even the simplest CLI. So things like Heroku or a one-click Digital Ocean box are out. This could be a good idea for a startup...
- MrBra 12y agoI've always thought, if there was a simple, efficient way to simply <?Ruby puts("use Ruby like PHP") ?> then a lot of good stuff could happen.