To the new programmers who think Ruby is the new fangled programming language, think again!

Sure, Ruby is newer, fancier, and even promises faster development time compared to tired old programming languages like PHP. That’s what Derek Sivers of popular CDBaby.com website thought. He took two years to convert his ‘messy’ PHP codes to Ruby on Rails. After 2 years he found out that things were not as easy as he thought. Swallowing his pride he went back to PHP and finished the required features he needed in 2 months !! Of course he tries to save his ego by mentioning that what he learnt in Rails, he applied in the new PHP codes

Read his article on 7 Reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails