Right now i have customers that want to pay me, but i don't have a back end. I would love to just get something done now in prototype, so i can build a real ni

Right now i have customers that want to pay me, but i don't have a back end. I would love to just get something done now in prototype, so i can build a real nice MVC later on. in the "RAILS MVC" pattern i have only tutorial experience and now the code ignite tutorial behind me. I come from a C# world, so a lot of this is still new to me. We decided to move from C# because php5.2 is so awesome, and mono was becoming a scary rabbit hole. Code Igniter is an exciting idea. I am curious what the best way is to extend a model in CI. it looks like a few days work just to think about it. i think if we bring in 4braham in Madison, WI we might be able to build a decent set of classes though. ThruDB also launched today for ubuntu, so i would like to build in the hooks for thrudb and memcache on s3 objects so that it is built for scalability and simplicity.