To be honest, I'm not a big fan of either Ruby or PHP. Ruby is a hipster programming language. Ruby developers have a tendency to get really hung up on syntax. It's tough to get them to work in any other language because they complain about semi-colons and curly braces.They like to say stuff like "when you don't have to worry about semi colons and curly braces it frees your mind up to think about your app."(If colons an curly braces are too difficult for you to think about your app you probably shouldn't be a programmer. Maybe write Haiku instead.)
PHP devs often have very poor coding habits due to the fact that it's so easy to mix PHP and HTML and do things in a procedural style.
Whichever direction you go in, those are some things to look out for when hiring devs.
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To be honest, I'm not a big fan of either Ruby or PHP. Ruby is a hipster programming language. Ruby developers have a tendency to get really hung up on syntax. It's tough to get them to work in any other language because they complain about semi-colons and curly braces.They like to say stuff like "when you don't have to worry about semi colons and curly braces it frees your mind up to think about your app."(If colons an curly braces are too difficult for you to think about your app you probably shouldn't be a programmer. Maybe write Haiku instead.)
PHP devs often have very poor coding habits due to the fact that it's so easy to mix PHP and HTML and do things in a procedural style.
Whichever direction you go in, those are some things to look out for when hiring devs.