Welcome to the Treehouse Community

Want to collaborate on code errors? Have bugs you need feedback on? Looking for an extra set of eyes on your latest project? Get support with fellow developers, designers, and programmers of all backgrounds and skill levels here with the Treehouse Community! While you're at it, check out some resources Treehouse students have shared here.

Looking to learn something new?

Treehouse offers a seven day free trial for new students. Get access to thousands of hours of content and join thousands of Treehouse students and alumni in the community today.

Start your free trial

Ruby

Posted by Nikolay Batrakov
Nikolay Batrakov
9,604 Points

Ecommerce on RoR?

I have three web shops in posession :) written mostly on PHP. Everything is sweet but here on Treehose I fall in love with Ruby. Now I'm starting to think of rebuilding my shops in RoR. So if anybody could share thoughts... Is it worth doing?

2 Answers

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

The only insight I have is this quote that I really like and always post when such questions come up:

"[t]he likelihood that PHP is being used is strongly anti-correlated with company quality."

The rest of the publication does not say that Rails is the good choice, but at least it's not quoted to be as bad as PHP. The article states that things like Scala should be used. To that I usually respond with this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8201244

Hope this helps :)

Nikolay Batrakov
Nikolay Batrakov
9,604 Points
Nikolay Batrakov
Nikolay Batrakov
9,604 Points

Niff said! :) and yes, I also consider time to market as a most important factor in development of web commerce. Thanx Maciej!