Preface

Hi, all! From PHP to Ruby to Rails is a guide for people who have a PHP background and understanding but wish to extend their knowledge to another object-oriented programming language: Ruby. Ruby is a programming language originally created by Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto and publicly released in 1995. Since its inception, Ruby has been a very verbose language, and the open source community has adopted this trait to make Ruby programs very explicit regarding the intent of each line of code. This guide will not only teach you Ruby’s language features but also help you get into the mindset of Ruby application development. Along this journey of learning Ruby, you will also learn the basics of Ruby on Rails, a framework for creating web applications developed by David Heinemeier Hansson and released as an open source tool in 2004. With the growing popularity and adoption of Ruby and Ruby on Rails by tech companies, there is a lot of demand for Ruby developers all over the world. Whether you’re curious about Ruby and Ruby on Rails or want to find out whether Ruby is for you, this guide is for you.