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phing vs RubyGems: What are the differences?
What is phing? A PHP project build system or build tool based on Apache Ant. It is not GNU make; it's a PHP project build system or build tool based on Apache Ant. You can do anything with it that you could do with a traditional build system like GNU make, and its use of simple XML build files and extensible PHP 'task' classes make it an easy-to-use and highly flexible build framework.
What is RubyGems? Easily download, install, and use ruby software packages on your system. It is a package manager for the Ruby programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries, a tool designed to easily manage the installation of gems, and a server for distributing them.
phing and RubyGems belong to "Package Managers" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by phing are:
- Simple XML buildfiles
- Rich set of provided tasks
- Easily extendable via PHP classes
On the other hand, RubyGems provides the following key features:
- Package manager
- Instantly publish your gems
- Easily manage the installation of gems
phing is an open source tool with 1.05K GitHub stars and 302 GitHub forks. Here's a link to phing's open source repository on GitHub.
