Comments on: Why I Prefer Ruby on Rails over CakePHP

By: John Isaacks

John Isaacks — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:12:13 +0000

In Reference to: “Rails model objects allow for dynamic attributes”

CakePHP handles these scenarios via “virtual fields.” However, I do not like that if I only need the virtual field in one part of the app it has to be everywhere else as well.

By: Ruby by erickbrower - Pearltrees

Ruby by erickbrower - Pearltrees — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:35:59 +0000

[...] Why I Prefer Ruby on Rails over CakePHP by Jimmy Z Last year, I had a goal to learn Ruby on Rails and build an application in that framework. By learning CakePHP, I was able to wrap my mind around the rails framework concepts and make that transition a little easier. This year, I have made the full plunge into the Ruby on Rails, and I absolutely love it. As I’ve made the transition from php to ruby and from CakePHP to Ruby On Rails, I’ve written down some of the reasons why I now use Ruby on Rails over CakePHP . [note: I still prefer to use CakePHP over no framework if a client requests an application be written in php. [...]

By: Michael Clark

Michael Clark — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:30:47 +0000

As Ben pointed out, you can also use the afterFind to inject generated fields into the returned results array without too much trouble, so you might also want to modify that section of your post – while Cake may not yet be quite as elegantly used as Rails, it does seem to be beginning to acquire it’s most popular features — now it’s still lacking the object over array find result – but it’s much closer than it was.

By: Jimmy'z

Jimmy'z — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:27:32 +0000

Ben,

This is great news for the Cake community. I’ll update my article.

–
Jimmy

By: ben

ben — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:34:36 +0000

You can also now do reverse routing with CakePHP. Using your /person/view/id example we can now do the Rails like $html->link($persons_name, array(‘controller’=>’person’, ‘action’=>’view’, $persons_id);.

By: Mike H

Mike H — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:54:44 +0000

With Cake 1.2 there are now model behaviors “Bindable” and “Containable” that allow for pretty accurate manipulation of what your model retrieves on recursive queries, so no more uneccessary data retrieval.

Also, data manipulations like concatenation of the first_name and last name can be integrated into your model data using the afterFind() function in your model.
Very quick and easy.

By: Baz L

Baz L — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:56:09 +0000

One thing I’m confused about…Automatically querying data in the view? Unless I’m missing something, I wasn’t able to get this to work. Always got an existence error, unless I modify my find in the controller…

Please enlighten me.