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Re:Moving on from Rails by kayoone on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @03:39AM (#3294309)
thought the same, like he says PHP was shit and still is (which is partly true) but then delivers CRUD Tasks, ORMs etc as the reason for Rails which also are very popular in all other frameworks for other languages nowadays.
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Re:Moving on from Rails by dextorious on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @12:39PM (#3295884)
"""but then delivers CRUD Tasks, ORMs etc as the reason for Rails which also are very popular in all other frameworks for other languages nowadays."""

The might be popular for "other languages nowadays", but he delivers those as a reason of Rails success BACK IN THE DAY.

And indeed it was. Not many PHP ORMS and scaffolding frameworks existed or where successful back then.

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