James Hoskins makes a good point, on the North West Ruby User Group mailing list, about the recent Rails to PHP switch.

This my friends is what seo’ers call link bait. Notice the nice digg friendly title with a low number at the beginning followed by a lovely language war headline? Story goes up four days ago, story submitted to digg 3 days ago, look here:

http://digg.com/programming/7_Reasons_I_Switched_Back_to_PHP_After_2_Years_on_Rails_2

Story also forms basis for article at the register:

http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/09/25/ruby_rails_scripting_project_failure_2_0/

O’Reilly is going to push a whole load of ads on the back of this - plus all the link love - and CD Baby is going to get a whole lot of exposure.

Online marketing, you have to love it.

or why Jeremy Kemper joined 37Signals.

Ok. All that being said, I’m looking forward to using Rails some day when I start a brand new project from scratch, with Rails in mind from the beginning.
But I hope that this reaches someone somewhere thinking, “God our old code is ugly. If we only threw it all away and did it all over in Rails, it’d be so much easier!”