I'm not sure I get the comparison of PHP, a programming language, with 
Ruby on Rails, a full blown web stack application, have to do with each 
other? I could understand comparing Cakephp to Ruby on Rails, or PHP to 
Ruby as that would be making an apples to apples kind of comparison.
>
> PHP is fine for dynamic content, but I am not a fan of the platform 
> for true web applications.  If you are writing a true application and 
> using HTML to deliver content and take input instead of GTK or some 
> other windowing lib, PHP is just not structure enough for the job.
>
> My next tier is Ruby on Rails.  RoR is a full blown application 
> framework, that just so happens to use the web to interact with the 
> end user.  This is less about delivering news content for example and 
> more about delivering and collecting info in a DB.  Rails is much 
> better at these type deployments than PHP, but still lacks something 
> in flexibility.
>

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