A while back I said that some frameworks are so productive today that they might drive your choice of programming language. Well, it is not absolutely true if you are ready to put in effort and show your love for the framework by porting it to your preferred language. Steve Yegge wanted to use Rails, but could not use Ruby at Google, so he ported it to JavaScript. [Continue]
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.! [Continue]
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. [Continue]