At the time of Ruby (driven by Rails) starting to draw people away from PHP I think there was much more value attached to a single "right way to do it" than jus

At the time of Ruby (driven by Rails) starting to draw people away from PHP I think there was much more value attached to a single "right way to do it" than just Ruby being prettier. In the current world with Laravel and other frameworks in the PHP world its less of a thing, but at the time every PHP application I worked on came with its own half-baked framework coupled together from various libraries, and missing some feature or another. Moving to Rails where you could jump into any application and at the very least understand the fundamentals of where particular bits of code belonged from the offset was a breath of fresh air.