Free Ruby on Rails Hosting
Hey kids! Do you want to play with the new cool programming language sweeping the world? Do you not have a place to that will host those files for you? Well then get your parents permission and come on down to RailsPlayground.com
You get:
* 20 MB Disk Space
* 500 MB/Month Bandwidth
* 1 MySQL Database, 1 PostgreSQL Database
* FastCGI Ruby On Rails Support
* PHP 4.4.0, Perl 5.8.7
* FREE Setup, No Monthly Fee, No Ads on your site.
No catch from what I can see, though I confess I did not read all of their Terms
I signed up for one to check it out, but it seems like a nice way to play with Ruby on Rails. I have been using my linux server at home to mess around with this stuff (That is until my webhost will install Ruby and Rails!), but it could be useful to have a public place to play with at times.
If you use this to make something cool, feel free to post a link below and share.
Is CakePHP the Answer to Ruby On Rails?
Ruby on Rails is the shiniest, newest thing in the world of web development (my books should be coming soon from Amazon), because it allows the programmer to do away with hundreds of lines of code to do basic database driven website stuff. For example, a simple blog that has adding, editing and deleting entries can take 10 times the amount of code in PHP as it can in a Ruby on Rails version. So does this mean the end to our beloved PHP? Not if CakePHP has anything to do with it.
Here are CakePHP’s features:
Features
* compatibile with PHP4 and PHP5
* supplies integrated CRUD for database and simplified querying so you shouldn’t need to write SQL for basic operations (although some familiarity with SQL is strongly recommended)
* request dispatcher with good-looking, custom URLs
* fast, flexible templating (PHP syntax with helper methods)
* works from a website subdirectory, with very little Apache configuration involved (requires .htaccess files and mod_rewrite to work; these are available on most web servers)
Hmm. I’m going to have to give this a try. I still plan on using Ruby on Rails, but this could be nice for those large PHP projects most developers have lying around. Has anyone out there used CakePHP yet?