My take on the 7 reasons...
So the hottest topic in the rails community is seems is Derek Sivers’ blog post on why he switched from trying to reimplement his site in rails to php.
As someone who writes both rails and php for a living I feel that I have a good perspective on the rails vs php thing.
I’m sure the arguments will continue for some time, but all I know is that I write much better php since working with rails.
Right tool for the job and all that.