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		Ryan_Shmotkin on Oct 28, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails (200... He is comapring apples to oranges here. The language PHP to the _framework_ Rails. He didn't find the language (ruby) unsuitable, but rather the framework (rails) too heavy. This might of been exactly the same if he tried PHP with Zend/Symphony/etc. His bottom line should of been: "Sometimes its better to work without a framework".

46Bit on Oct 28, 2012 [–]

Or rather just a different framework. I wasn't a Rubyist in 2007, but certainly now Sinatra (especially with Padrino) is worthy of consideration.

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