PHP or Ruby

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During the weekend, I spend some time to look into ruby and PHP. Why I am looking into a scripting and interpretative language because it claim the development speed is 5 times faster than using Java.

My eyes focus on Ruby and PHP. Which one I would choose. I think there is no problem to either one since both language has success cases and communities.

Ruby became popular is mainly because of Ruby on Rails. Word like developer-friendly, object-oriented, fast are used for Ruby.

PHP is widely accepted by companies in China IT company. The main reason is it is simple enough for non-professional developers to learn and build an application.

For me, I think I will choose PHP for web-based application for prototype because the reason of simple and bigger community. People can build application prototype very fast using PHP.