PHP based CakePHP framework
PHP is installed on just about every web host, whereas that’s not necessarily true with Ruby
need to get rewritten/refactored into PHP
Which is where CakePHP steps in
CakePHP (or any framework really), is that it takes care of all the boring crud operations
Create/Read/Update/Delete
learning
CakePHP’s built-in scaffolding literally did 95% of all the heavy lifting
I think if I were to do this project from scratch and without the help of a framework, it would probably take me twice as long, and not be very easy to maintain.