Arguably, Ruby does things better/lighter/cleaner/more elegantly than PHP, but at the end of the day, they're both accomplishing the same business objective. An

Arguably, Ruby does things better/lighter/cleaner/more elegantly than PHP, but at the end of the day, they're both accomplishing the same business objective. And when the end result is the same, what PHP provides in the way of stability/industry uptake/user community/compatibility outweighs whatever gains in "programmer happiness" and all the other intangibles commonly flailed about by the Ruby/Rails community.