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From PHP to Ruby on Rails

You're reading from   From PHP to Ruby on Rails Transition from PHP to Ruby by leveraging your existing backend programming knowledge

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804610091
Length 244 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:From PHP to Ruby Basics
2. Chapter 1: Understanding the Ruby Mindset and Culture FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Our Local Environment 4. Chapter 3: Comparing Basic Ruby Syntax to PHP 5. Chapter 4: Ruby Scripting versus PHP Scripting 6. Chapter 5: Libraries and Class Syntax 7. Chapter 6: Debugging Ruby 8. Part 2:Ruby and the Web
9. Chapter 7: Understanding Convention over Configuration 10. Chapter 8: Models, DBs, and Active Record 11. Chapter 9: Bringing It All Together 12. Chapter 10: Considerations for Hosting Rails Applications versus PHP Applications 13. Index 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Debugging functions in Ruby versus PHP

So far, we’ve made scripts and code snippets making sure that our code works correctly every time. However, in the real world, we’ll come into contact with code that someone else has created and either wasn’t tested, or it wasn’t tested in a scenario that hadn’t come up until now. This happens more often than not, and we should be prepared to get our hands dirty to fix these types of issues. In PHP, we have a couple of functions that will help us debug in the simplest way. You are welcome to just read the following example and not follow along. For now, let’s take a look at PHP’s var_dump() function. We can open a command shell and create a file with the following content:

<?php //buggy_code.php
$person['firSt'] = 'Thomas';
$person['last'] = 'Anderson';
echo "Hi {$person['first']} {$person['last']}";

Let’s say we...

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