Show HN: I made a Ruby on Rails-like framework in PHP (Still in progress)
3 al3rez 2 8/9/2025, 1:05:02 PM github.com ↗
Play with it and let me know what you think of the architecture & how we can improve it with PHP native functions + speed.
As to why anyone thinks this is fun when PHP lacks so much of the expressive power of Ruby that makes Rails delightful...
As to speed, I am recalling an experience in 2010 where Rails running on a $30,000 4U 8-core Sun Solaris box ran 6x slower than a $600 4-core Intel CentOS PC from Best Buy. The surprise turned into anger when the Sun box would spontaneously turn off every night with a spontaneous "Case open fault" that turned out to be a firmware defect, where Sun refused to allow access to the update that corrected the defect without paying for a service contract that cost more than the PC.
Ah, the good old days of true iron.