[Cialug] OT: Ruby on Rails

[Stuart Thiessen]

From recent emails, it seems that several encourage Ruby or Python over PHP for security reasons. Is Ruby that much more secure? How so?

I work with a few websites for organizations I am a part of. So far, I have used PHP for most of what I have worked with. I just noticed that our provider (which previously only had Perl and PHP) now has Ruby available. I wish they had Python, but apparently not yet. So ... as someone who knows Perl, PHP, and Python, do any of you have suggestions on how I can leverage those skills to help me learn Ruby? I glanced at it once, but didn't pursue it because it wasn't available as a language our provider installed. What kinds of relearning did you experience with Ruby? Any best tutorials, books, or other resources for learning Ruby? I plan to do some googling today, but I also prefer to find out what others have experienced too.

Thanks,

Stuart