PHP better than Ruby (on Rails)?

Not quite but Derek Sivers, an early proponent of switching to Rails for large-scale websites, has written a post on his O'Reilly blog about why he just gave up on 2 years' work in Rails on his CD Baby project to switch back to PHP. It's a very sensible article looking at the fact that Rails isn't always the answer, much as it may pain us to admit, and that when PHP (or any other language) would actually be easier to use, we just should. That said, I haven't been tempted back to PHP for anything just yet :)