[jjunkin]

RoR is clearly a better language than php from a prgramming standpoint. BUT PHP is perhaps the best supported language on the web. By support I mean platform choices, documentation, discussion, number of programmers, libraries and plugins and stability.

Even though it's the ugly child, you won't go wrong with PHP. It scales, look at facebook. It's where the jobs are.

I hope one day ruby overtakes it, but until then I would vote for PHP.

[itsrobert]

RoR is clearly a better language

I'm not sure if you made a mistake here, but RoR is a framework. Ruby is a language. RoR shouldn't be compared to PHP. If anything, it should be compared to one of the many PHP frameworks out there.

I agree that there are a great deal of jobs for PHP, but I disagree that "It's where the jobs are." There are a great deal of jobs around for RoR.

[jjunkin]

Hey, I just replied to what the poster submitted. Sure rails is a platform and ruby is the languge. My arguement still holds, PHP has far more support and ruby is a better language. Same goes for platforms, PHP has far more options and ruby has few. IMO PHP wins because it has more resources. But as a languge i like ruby better. As for jobs, I didn't say there were none for rails/ruby, just that there are far more for php.

[itsrobert]

I wasn't disagreeing with your argument. I mainly just wanted to clarify a few things for the OP.

[nametoremember]

To be fair, where I am from PHP jobs outnumber Ruby jobs at a 10 to 1.

[csomar]

I'm not sure that PHP still has the best support. It's true that there are lots of PHP books, but the number is overwhelming and confusing.

RoR has got few resources but they are well done. There are good tutorials and books about RoR. There are good add-ons. And also not a large % of its' developers are just 2 month programmers.

I don't see how the quantity in PHP helps.