or bittersweet lessons learned
from the Ruby ecosystem
“We like to hate PHP”
Ievgen Kuzminov. MobiDev. Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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PHP is bad/slow/wrong/ugly… ?
http://phpsadness.com/
Unexpected
T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM
（╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
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Ruby is not better
It is just a different mindset
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Ievgen Kuzminov
http://stdout.in
@iJackUA
6 years in PHP
2 years in Ruby
Currently:
Ruby Team Lead in MobiDev
Author of
http://rwdtow.stdout.in
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How to start a rant?
http://stdout.in/en/post/ruby-ecosystem-bitte
rsweet-or-we-like-to-hate-php
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Healthy ecosystem:
▣ Frameworks pluralism
▣ Libraries agnosticism
▣ Tools, that just work
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Recent decade of The Web Dev
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‘’
Vicious circle of demand
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1) Symfony
2) Laravel
3) Yii
4) Slim
...
How many framework are in production?
1) Ruby on Rails
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Frameworks are cheating!
▣ Do not teach to write better code
▣ Teach to use the framework only
▣ “In which folder should I put this class?”
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What is it ? (Uncle Bob)
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▣ Framework
▣ CMS
▣ Library
Have you ever written your OWN...
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▣ Learn the other language to get better view
on your “native” one
▣ Traits/mixins are not “composition”
▣ Now I consider OOP as an “issue”
I thought I knew OOP
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▣ Not an end in itself, but the criterion
▣ Harder to follow with dynamic composition
▣ Dependency Injection. WAT ?
SOLID
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...or they don't have a chance because people can't look further the
Rails monster. (C)
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Evolution
and
Performance
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PHP FIG
Community
and
Standards
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▣ Composer
▣ The League of
Extraordinary
Packages
▣ Aura for PHP
Packages
▣ Bundler / Gems
▣ Dry-Web
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Monkey-patching
What is it?
Example:
5.minutes.ago
vs
TimeMath.minutes.decrease(Time.now, 5)
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Ruby or Rails?
Array
▣ first
▣ second
▣ last
▣ second_to_last
▣ third_to_last
▣ forty_two
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Syntax, DSL, metaprogramming
Ruby has less parenthesis and formatting issues.
Can handle DSL and metaprogramming.
PHP has less possibilities… and that’s fine!
Who cares when your IDE has autocomplete.
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▣ PSR-4 rules!
Modules and Namespaces
▣ Constants autoload
hell
Business logic architecture in PHP
▣ MVC is not enough
▣ Dependency Injection is not a silver bullet
▣ DCI
▣ CQRS (https://github.com/qandidate-labs/broadway)
▣ ?
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Learn SQL.
I mean it!
ORM
vs
SQL
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Where
Ruby
outperforms
PHP
Background
jobs and queues