How do you justify your choice in favor of Ruby or PHP?

Question

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Good evening, #username!
Just last week, I started studying material on the topic of web development, the fact is that I want to start gaining experience in the topic as quickly as possible by working on domestic freelance exchanges. Actually, as I understand it, in Russia they mostly like to freelance in PHP (and you have a low entry threshold, and there are many customers, and PHP developers, and modules are convenient and common - correct if not) which justified the choice of language. In the future, after about a couple of months of constant practice on the exchange, I make an exit on Ruby on Rails and foreign exchanges.
I chose a direction for myself:
* in parallel I study PHP -> Drupal / HTML-> CSS (the basics of the front-end, as I understand it - well, and JS more, only later - correct it if it's wrong.)
Questions of interest by stage:
- do you support the choice of PHP as the initial language for immersion in the topic, or immediately switch to Ruby? Your choice if you could change your past?
- any useful tips from personal experience, or competent material on the topic, languishing in bookmarks, waiting in the wings?
* collecting a portfolio -> making a couple of websites of non-existent companies + a couple of modules on Drupal (based on information from this resource and my own idea of ​​the market.)
- can I have something to advise, add from myself?
* Gaining experience in work, making websites on a turn-key basis, layout, or specifically by module, in general, anything. At the same time, I'm learning JS. Having studied it to a sane level, I leave for Ruby and for the Western exchange.
- I have a bad idea what modules for JS are and why they are, I heard the most popular jquery, tell me?
* Profit
- how do you see your ideal Roadmap for web development from scratch for freelance?
Thank you!

Answer 1

HTML5+CSS3+JS is where to start.
PHP and Ruby languages ​​​​are very easy to learn, but I don’t understand what you will do with them, since Drupal is a ready-made CMS, and for Ruby you need to learn the language itself first, and then the framework for it.
I don't think that a CMS with a lot of hacks and a lot of code is generally a good teacher.
If you learn PHP, then first as an independent language, and then as a web, so does Ruby. And only then proceed to frameworks and CMS. Both languages ​​are good. There is no point in switching from one to the other.
>how do you see your ideal roadmap for web development from scratch for freelance?
Learn one thing, and there the picture of the world will change radically. :/

Answer 2

drupalers switch to ror...

Answer 3

Good thing it's not php