09-24-2007, 10:40 AM
Quote:SEVEN REASONS I SWITCHED BACK TO PHP AFTER 2 YEARS ON RAILS:
#1 - IS THERE ANYTHING RAILS/RUBY CAN DO THAT PHP CANT DO? (thinking) NO.
For 2 years, I thought Rails is genius, PHP is shit. Rails is powerful, PHP is crap.
I was nearly killing my company in the name of blindly insisting Rails was the answer to all questions, timeframes be damned.
But when I took a real emotionless non-prejudiced look at it, I realized the language didnt matter that much.
Ruby is prettier. Rails has nice shortcuts. But no big shortcuts I cant code-up myself in a day if needed.
Looked at from a real practical point of view, I could do anything in PHP, and there were many business reasons to do so.
#2 - OUR ENTIRE COMPANYS STUFF WAS IN PHP: DONT UNDERESTIMATE INTEGRATION...
full article: http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007...o_p_1.html