Spoken: 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails

"7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails" by Daniel Berlinger

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:49:45 +0000

Chad Fowler on the same issue: http://chadfowler.com/2006/12/27/the-big-rewrite

"7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails" by Steve

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:13:51 +0000

I couldn't agree more with this post. Also, I don't think it simply about PHP it's been true in my career about whatever language you learn. The advances in approach to a new language (such as Ruby) can be applied to previous iterations of languages that followed (PHP, Pascal, LISP and CF too:) Steve

7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails

Daniel — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:55:00 +0000

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