Ruby On Rail Vs PHP

Comparing Ruby on Rails to PHP is unfair. PHP is simply a programming language.

On the other hand, Ruby on Rails is a framework developed in the Ruby programming language.

The clear winner is the platform that you already know, that will do what you need and that your clients need. In most cases, it is going to be PHP for a number of simple reasons. First of all, most web hosts support it so there are a lot more clients using it. You will find more jobs, more web hosts and more opportunities to use PHP. Secondly, the features that Rails as a framework provide, can easily be duplicated by using one of the many excellent PHP frameworks. CakePHP, in particular, supplies many of the same features. You probably already know PHP. Your existing knowledge can not be overvalued. Experience with a platform means that you already know all the pitfalls and gotchas of working with it. Finally, PHP is more flexible. If you don’t need a full framework, you can roll your own in PHP. If you need your application to work differently than what the framework defines, you can do that in PHP. And chances are you can find a library or extension to do anything you need to in PHP. While Ruby on Rails has some great features, the market has already declared the winner to be PHP.