Welcome to Rhubarb
Rhubarb is a PHP application development framework giving you a robust, fast and secure platform for your next project.
composer create-project rhubarbphp/bootstrap-webapp myappHow does Rhubarb differ from other great frameworks like Laravel, Zend, Symphony and the others?
Rhubarb shares many of the best of these frameworks but improves in some important areas. Rhubarb has been forged in the fire of real enterprise application development where performance and development costs become big concerns.
Here's some of Rhubarb's key features:
1. Scaffolds
A Rhubarb scaffold can, just by including it, configure models, DB schemas, url handling and user interfaces. After inclusion any aspect of those features can be amended, retired or even completely replaced to best fit in your application.
2. Hierarchical MVP
Unique among PHP frameworks Rhubarb showcases a hierarchical Model-View-Presenter library for rapid development of unit tested, view abstracted user interfaces through reusable objects.
3. Performance
We've learned the hard way how applications grow over time and we don't believe the performance of your application should degrade as your application gets more complex. That's why we've made important decisions about how Rhubarb is configured.
4. Configuration over Convention
Many frameworks have moved to 'convention over configuration' philosophies. If you name files correctly and put them in the right location the behaviour you want will automatically emerge. While this approach lets you demonstrate lots of progress quickly, in a real enterprise application its not long before your requirements go beyond what simple convention can achieve and invariably the framework starts working against you requiring fairly obscure to circumvent the automatic behaviours. Junior developers are also afforded little opportunity to stretch their programming skills as tasks can easily become simple assembly jobs, with a fall back of searching the web for solutions to problems outside the 'magic' zone.
Rhubarb's approach is configuration over convention. This gives you the maximum performance and helps people understand how the application works and thereby open the door to creative and cost effective programming.
Starting a Rhubarb project
Rhubarb contains a primary library ('rhubarb') and a collection of optional modules and scaffolds that you can choose from. It requires composer to manage these optional modules.
As we all know the best way to evaluate something is to see real examples so the best way to get started might be to base your project on our bootstrap app:
composer create-project rhubarbphp/bootstrap-webapp myapp
cd myapp
vagrant upWe're using vagrant to host Apache so you can now simply visit http://localhost:8080/