Matthew Magain suggests that PHP developers are most likely to adopt Rails. I don’t see any specific reason, apart from the fact that PHP developers are already used to the open source environment. Otherwise PHP has more off-the-shelf functionalities/packages available. To enjoy benefits of the Rails design there is already an excellent PHP alternative - CakePHP. I think they might be more open to learn the programming language Ruby though, which provides a fresh alternative with the philosophy of lesscode.


November 10th, 2006 at 11:17 am
[...] I am completely with Ted Dzuiba when he says that PHP is not that bad. There have been a lot of comparisons between PHP and Ruby or for some reason with Ruby on Rails. You do have CakePHP if you like RoR’s idea.! [...]