Programming question.

Are there anyone here who knows much about Ruby or Ruby on Rails. If so Could someone tell me if they are a good alternative to Perl, Java, and PHP. Thank you.

I know a tiny bit about Ruby because of RGSS, but you shouldn't really be asking if it's a good alternative. It's probably best to see what you can do with it and see if the programming language style suits you.

I know Ruby specifically for use with RMXP, so I couldn't tell you much otherwise, sorry

although Java is simple and PHP is very powerful, and there's a lot of resources out there, so I'd stick with those personally

It all depends on what you are going to program for, what your objective is.  Web applications, games, etc.

I dont know yet, Ive just been surveying a lot of programming languages, and have stopped at these choices. I love to look at Ruby syntax, and im hearing a lot of good things about Ruby on Rails.  Although the others are more established, and more resources available. Theres a lot of diffrent things I want to do, but im just at a toss up on which to learn.

Well, if you are just interested in learning, then choose whichever you prefer.    You can start with one, then go with the others, one by one. 

I might, im just not confident enough in my learning abilities hehe. Im trying really hard to learn something alone, but its really hard to learn by yourself, I hope I can find a partner to study with.

I know it's hard, but you can do it.  ^^;  I am into the same dilemma.

Thanks for the vote of confidence. So what are you trying to learn by yourself?

Hah!  So many things...  Not only programming.  But I've been learning PHP by myself for about two years.  Taking my time.  The key is practice.  And I have not practiced enough.  That is why it's taking so long.  But I've progressed a lot!  And knowing at least one language is a great advantage to learning other languages.  The basics are usually the same.  However, I don't know much about object-oriented programming.  Some of the languages you mentioned are object-oriented.  Ruby and Java, if I am not wrong.

Your right, they are OO. Good luck with the PHP, if you ever want a study partner let me know, I can help you practice or something.

I've never used Ruby myself, since I do not really have much time to learn new things at my hands. Besides after I finish my 8hrs day at work (which I spend writing C for WCDMA base stations) last thing I want to do is programming :/

But I have firends who do web publishing for their work, and all of them say that Ruby is far simpler, safer and better than php for example. But they also say that if you choose ruby for your site, then you'll limit your options what comes to finding a host for your site... Not all hosts support ruby, while almost all do suppoort php for example

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