[thechangelog]

About 18 months ago I came to the realization that Rails just wasn't required for the projects I was using.

I jumped on the Rails band wagon early and loved all the syntatic sugar that comes from Ruby, and I'd never really developed with an MVC pattern.

Like you, I gradually realized I was spending more time as a sysadmin or bashing my clients' commodity hosting into submission than actually building sites. I felt like I was cheating when I finally went back to PHP (CodeIgniter, also).

It wasn't til I rsync'd the PHP site I was working on to the prod server and saw it just work that I started feeling a bit better. Since then, I've been totally happy using simple but solid PHP frameworks.

So, I think you're on the right track. Admittedly, I'm a little out of date on the state of Rails deployment. But if you're productive in PHP, go for it.

[andrewljohnson]

What pattern do you develop with?

[thechangelog]

Not sure I understand the question... I use CodeIgniter whenever we're building a bespoke site. It uses a Model-View-Controller pattern, like Rails. Is that what you were asking?

[andrewljohnson]

I thought you comment said your don't use the MVC pattern.