Why porting Ruby on Rails?
Ruby on Rails is a fantastic web development framework backed with a highly qualified community, which produces great functionalities and documentation. Although we strongly recommend you learning Ruby, many experienced PHP developers/shops do not have the time/resources to get productive with a new programming language. We decided to build the framework after considering several alternatives. Although we loved Ruby on Rails we needed a framework that allowed developers to distribute standalone scripts that could run on cheap shared hosting without modifications. For this reason we decided to go with PHP4 and make it compatible with PHP5. We considered other PHP ports of Ruby on Rails, but we could not find all we needed on them. One feature that we needed on the core was internationalization and Unicode support, so we decided to roll our own framework trying to keep most of the original rails interface so most of its documentation could work for it.
