Re: [PhillyOnRails] Ruby-Presenters and Non-ruby presenters?

[Mat Schaffer <schapht@gmail.com>]

On Sep 18, 2007, at 11:59 AM, Colin A. Bartlett wrote:
> Randy Schmidt wrote:
> > I wanted to try to emphasize things that would hit
> > home with PHP developers...so if anybody has ideas, I'm all ears.
> Migrations
> RJS / other AJAX coolness

+1 on the migrations.  They blew my PHP-programmer mind.

It's not a framework thing, but one item I often bring up when making  
the PHP/Ruby comparison is handling of static (or class) methods.   
PHP makes it basically impossible to implement an interface as  
seamless ActiveRecord.  I expect this would be a hard topic to broach  
in a presentation, but consider it if you're hanging out after and  
someone tries to tell you rails could be written in PHP.

Example:

==Ruby==

class Papa
  def self.foo
    "I'm a " + self.to_s
  end
end

class Kiddo < Papa
end

Kiddo.foo  # => I'm a Kiddo

==PHP==

class Papa {
    public static function foo() {
        return "I'm a " . get_class();
    }
}

class Kiddo extends Papa {
}

Kiddo::foo();  # => I'm a Papa
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