[edoceo]

Rails was only one of many Patterns of Enterprise Architecture projects. Martin Fowler made a book, then RoR came along, and the environment at the time was "hating" on PHP and ignoring it's PoEA frameworks (Cake) in search of a new shiny. Then it had an uptrend (common s-curve) and some sticking. Now JS is (re) having a similar trend.

Plus ça change I guess.

Also, the students I'm hiring (right out of USA community college) are taught Python and don't know any web-stuff yet.

So, I have to teach server-side PHP (dozens of legacy projects (still using PoEA)) and some HTML and JS.

As long as the know the code basics language syntax is a small hurdle.

Oh, and please SHIP something, anything to demonstrate at interviews.

[xiaoma]

Cake PHP was basically a copy of Rails. When Rails first appeared, it didn't exist.

[edoceo]

According to Wikipedia that is false. CakePHP in April 2005, RoR in December 2005

[xiaoma]

No, that's not true.

The history section of the wikipedia entry on rails says: "Hansson first released Rails as open source in July 2004, but did not share commit rights to the project until February 2005."[1]

The very second sentence of the wikipedia article on CakePHP is: " It follows the model–view–controller (MVC) approach and is written in PHP, modeled after the concepts of Ruby on Rails, and distributed under the MIT License."[2]

Then, in the fourth paragraph: "One of the project's inspirations was Ruby on Rails, using many of its concepts. "

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_on_Rails#History

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CakePHP

[edoceo]

I stand corrected.

[sopooneo]

PoEA. "Philippine Overseas Employment Administration"?

http://www.poea.gov.ph/