Akelos does PHP and Ruby on Rails all over again
Why haven’t I heard of Akelos? I suppose I should be thankful for finally getting out of the PHP community but its always a good idea to keep track of what’s out there. How are software developers supposed to “use the best tool for the job” if their toolbelt is only 3 tools deep?
Watching an Akelos screencast is not all that different from watching a rails screencast as most of the terminology is the same: MVC, generators, scaffolding, migrations, etc. At first I was a little concerned that Akelos was ripping off Ruby on Rails (again) but their homepage does state that akelos is a “port of Ruby on Rails” and that it’d be useful for Ruby on Rails developers who need to code in PHP. After reading that I began to think that a PHP port of rails may not be such a bad thing. It would definitely flatten out the learning curve that’s presented in learning other PHP frameworks like CakePHP, CodeIgniter, or Symphony.
Speaking of “ripping off”, that community logo looks awfully familiar:
So, next time you’ve got a PHP project on your hands, I suggest that you check out Akelos, it couldn’t hurt.