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anybody use cake? not really much like rails imo

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 1:12 pm
by Luke
So I finally got around to trying out rails and I must say it is unbelievably intuitive and easy to learn. If I knew ruby better, and I had it available on all servers I'd probably switch to rails for about 75% of the web apps we build here due to the sheer speed of development. Anyway, because of rails's setbacks I decided to look into a php rails-like solution and I found cakePHP to be the most popular of them. To my dismay it turns out that cakePHP doesn't have a lot of the cool things that make "getting something running" in rails so easy.

For instance, you can generate an entire scaffolding in cakePHP, but what good does it do you? Yea whoopie, I can input data into my table easily... I could do that with phpmyadmin. The thing about rails that makes that so freakin' nifty is that you can then generate all of the CRUD operations right into your controllers / views in rails and then mold those to fit your needs. That is freakin' AWESOME.

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:00 pm
by Oren
Man... please change your avatar :?

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 5:55 pm
by Luke
not a chance

Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:18 am
by indeyets
Give a try to Symfony-project. It's way better than cake (and better than rails in some cases too)

Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:37 am
by Luke
turns out cake does have a code generator... it isn't quite as nice as rails, but it works.

Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:38 am
by John Cartwright
I am use CakePHP on a few projects, you might also want to check out The CakePHP Bakery for some handy extensions.