"the MVC pattern and associated features like routes, helpers, etc" Eh some people (like myself, and my colleagues at the time) were using those concepts in PH

"the MVC pattern and associated features like routes, helpers, etc" Eh some people (like myself, and my colleagues at the time) were using those concepts in PHP (albeit that 'routes' and 'helpers' were just called 'mod_rewrite paths' and 'utility functions') in 2000, long before Rails was even conceived.