[veeberz]

Funny, the other day I was talking to someone about a project I was doing for my Intro to Software Engineering class. We had to make a web application with any tools we want, with the suggestion that we used Django or Rails. I chose Rails. Anyways, when I mentioned "Rails" this guy gave me this incredulous look and said "Rails? Use PHP."

I consider myself at an intermediate level (I guess by my own standards). I've dabbled in PHP. But honestly, I like Rails. Obviously the appeal to it is ease of use, and I'd definitely consider using it in my future projects. Though he never explained why PHP is objectively better. I just thought of it as just another tool to use, like Rails.

[smileysteve]

If you like rails, I'd stick with it. That means that you're already familiar with the MVC model, and once you grasp that, Ruby and the Rails helpers are easier to implement than PHP.

~ I've worked in Symfony 1.x, Laravel, and Ruby on Rails.