I am relatively new to Ruby and Rails, but have a lot of experience with Perl and PHP. After looking at Rails, I really like Ruby, but find Rails to be to restrictive in the way you have to do things. This article: http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/ blog/2007/09/7_reasons_i_switched_back_to_p_1.html sort explains how I feel, mostly #5. Maybe I just need to spend more time learning Rails. Moving from Perl to PHP was really easy. PHP seems to be Perl modified for the web. What I am thinking of would be a PHP modeled on Ruby the way PHP is modeled on Perl. Maybe call it RHP. Thoughts?