Try both out and see what you think. Some big sites use PHP like Facebook and Flickr. Here are some sites that use Ruby on Rails: http://rubyonrails.org/applica

Try both out and see what you think. Some big sites use PHP like Facebook and Flickr. Here are some sites that use Ruby on Rails: http://rubyonrails.org/applications http://rubyonrails.org/applications. That list lists Twitter but I thought they changed so I am not sure how up to date it is. I personally like Ruby and I like Rails. To me Ruby looks cleaner than PHP and as a result, it gets less messy with lots of code. Rails is the framework. I love the MVC concept even just for separating my files logically.