Back from the wilderness
This article covers a lot of my issues with Rails. I think PHP has taken a real beating over the last few years. This beating has been good for the language and good for developers. Exploring rails taught me a lot about the MVC pattern and left me with some great ideas for how to develope web apps. But I came back to PHP because I found the framework often didn’t want to do what I did, which always slows things down.
There will always be a place for Rails in the world of rapid development. I think it is a great solution for a small consultancy that needs to produce solid apps, fast. But for large scale development PHP is going to continue to be the standard scripting language.