Recently I had the opportunity to attend a seminar about Ruby on Rails, things were nice with Ruby and Rails, I liked scaffolding, I also liked the various features of Rails and I think it's the real power of RoR. Afterwards I deceided to put Rails versus Cake PHP, a PHP framework that works on all recent PHP versions from 4.3.2 till 5.0 (I haven't tested it on PHP 5.1 but I think it will need some hands-on work to have it error-proof). I started by creating a simple e-commerce database-driven site with them both and overall result I get is: I really see that Cake PHP is a PHP version of Rails.

I tried installing Ruby and Rails on Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy), I followed exactly what was written in the article: http://fo64.com/articles/2005/10/20/rails-on-breezy But I ran into trouble with Rails after the installation, Rails said: "Rails does not work with Ruby version 1.8.3". After some search and a friend's help, it appears that you have to do the following BEFORE you follow what's in the article: