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Phalcon

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+ 1
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Rails

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webapp2

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Pros of Phalcon
Pros of Rails
Pros of webapp2
  • 65
    Fast
  • 54
    High performance
  • 37
    Open source
  • 35
    Fast and easy to use
  • 32
    Scalable
  • 23
    Versatile
  • 22
    Fiexble
  • 20
    Automatic routing
  • 19
    It is easy and fast
  • 17
    Is very good
  • 9
    Low overhead
  • 9
    Dependency injection
  • 6
    Awesome
  • 2
    Easy and fast
  • 1
    Great for API
  • 1
    Clean Architecture
  • 1
    Modularity
  • 1
    Easy Setup
  • 0
    Very customizable
  • 856
    Rapid development
  • 652
    Great gems
  • 606
    Great community
  • 484
    Convention over configuration
  • 417
    Mvc
  • 348
    Great for web
  • 343
    Beautiful code
  • 310
    Open source
  • 270
    Great libraries
  • 261
    Active record
  • 108
    Elegant
  • 90
    Easy to learn
  • 88
    Easy Database Migrations
  • 82
    Makes you happy
  • 75
    Free
  • 62
    Great routing
  • 54
    Has everything you need to get the job done
  • 41
    Great Data Modeling
  • 38
    MVC - Easy to start on
  • 38
    Beautiful
  • 35
    Easy setup
  • 26
    Great caching
  • 25
    Ultra rapid development time
  • 22
    It's super easy
  • 17
    Great Resources
  • 16
    Easy to build mockups that work
  • 14
    Less Boilerplate
  • 7
    Developer Friendly
  • 7
    API Development
  • 6
    Great documentation
  • 5
    Easy REST API creation
  • 5
    Quick
  • 4
    Intuitive
  • 4
    Great language
  • 4
    Haml and sass
  • 4
    Easy to learn, use, improvise and update
  • 2
    Metaprogramming
  • 2
    It works
  • 2
    Jet packs come standard
  • 2
    Easy and fast
  • 2
    Legacy
  • 1
    It's intuitive
  • 1
    Convention over configuration
  • 1
    Easy Testing
  • 1
    Cancan
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    Cons of Phalcon
    Cons of Rails
    Cons of webapp2
    • 4
      Support few databases
    • 2
      Very bad documentation
    • 24
      Too much "magic" (hidden behavior)
    • 14
      Poor raw performance
    • 12
      Asset system is too primitive and outdated
    • 6
      Heavy use of mixins
    • 6
      Bloat in models
    • 4
      Very Very slow
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      What is Phalcon?

      Phalcon is a web framework implemented as a C extension offering high performance and lower resource consumption.

      What is Rails?

      Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

      What is webapp2?

      webapp2 is a simple. it follows the simplicity of webapp, but improves it in some ways: it adds better URI routing and exception handling, a full featured response object and a more flexible dispatching mechanism.

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