I switched from Ruby on Rails on my side project to PHP.
Building the web app in PHP took me 2 hours – the same thing in Rails would have taken 2 days.
Now i have time to read HN.
This just doesn't ring true to me. Rails is very simple and fast to develop in.
Similarly to Rails, I believe you're using PHP framework?
No, only PHP. The Author uses only Node too. Why should i use a Framework?
It'd be more interesting to see how you replaced rails framework stuff that need 2 days to build your project with vanilla PHP code that takes 2 hours.