Posted by Daniel Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:55:00 GMT

7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails: SUMMARY: I spent two years trying to make Rails do something it wasn’t meant to do, then realized my old abandoned language (PHP, in my case) would do just fine if approached with my new Rails-gained wisdom. [Since this was highly discussed when it was announced I was wondering what happened when it petered out. Now there’s a lot of folks that know that scrapping a working code base is far more expensive than refactoring. And there’s a bunch more who know that switching languages and frameworks also has a cost. Sooo… this was not a surprising outcome all things considered. I think the end of the story is nice though, as there is nothing like the feeling like you borrowed what you needed and have a system that does exactly what you want (no more and no less).]
Source: O’Reilly Ruby