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Posted by admin, Sat Sep 22 15:28:47 UTC 2007
7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails – O’Reilly Ruby
Back in January 2005, I announced on the O’Reilly blog that I was going to completely scrap over 100,000 lines of messy PHP code in my existing CD Baby (cdbaby.com) website, and rewrite the entire thing in Rails, from scratch.
Frankly, the idea of taking something that works, however ugly, and rewriting the whole thing in another language is ludicrous. Who came up with the business case for that?!? Fire them! No business case? Then fire the guy who proceeded with the project without one!
People get excited about new technologies, and then go and make some very strange decisions. Rails has it’s advantages. But you should have a solid business case for any project, Rails or not. Rails is not a magic wand to wave, that solves every problem for you. You still need to use your brain. And your business sense… if you have any.