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First of all, i want some clarification 🙂
1) Is RoR like a server scripting language?
2) Can it be used as an alternative to php?
I started learning Ruby from The Ruby Programming Language book and haven’t yet come across something which relates to the web. Is Ruby for desktop apps and Rails for web apps?
Thanks
Not Really. Ruby on Rails is a web application framework written in Ruby. If you need a comparison, Ruby on Rails is for Ruby what Zend Framework, CakePHP or Symfony are for PHP.
Neither Ruby nor Ruby on Rails are real alternatives to PHP. PHP is a programming language focused on web applications. Ruby is a pure programming language which can be used for creating web applications.
Ruby on Rails offers a more high-level approach for writing web applications with Ruby. Ruby offers some low-level CGI libraries you can use to interact with web servers, but it requires much more effort compared to PHP (because again, PHP is a web-focused language).
For this reason, almost nobody writes web application in Ruby without using a framework such as Rails, Sinatra or others.