Okay. The year is 2005. PHP5 was fresh out of the oven and most people were still on PHP4. From PHP's point of view, there's rumors of something happening in the Ruby community that will be big, and should be talked about [1].
Then Rails 1.0 drops at the end of the year. From this Slashdot thread [2] on the announcement you can gauge the contemporary reaction; comments detail the fact that Rails was breath of fresh air from the configuration-heavy Java frameworks of the day -- represented by Struts [3], but others weren't much different in this regard, as these books from 2002 and 2004 about alternatives to Struts show [4][5]. Several ASP developers, detail their positive experiences in switching their web development to Rails [6][7][8]. The PHP world is forever changed -- by 2006, frameworks inspired by Rails abound [9]. "Ruby on Rails" becomes a popular phrase, some frameworks borrow the naming scheme along with the ideas: "Groovy on Grails" [10] tries to bring Rails' ideas to the Java world, "PHP on Trax" (formerly "PHP on Rails" [9]), "ColdFusion on Wheels" [11].
I'd say Rails made quite the splash.
[1] https://blog.phpdeveloper.org/2005/12/31/25/ [2] https://developers.slashdot.org/story/05/12/14/0034219/ruby-... [3] http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2005/2/22/comparing-struts-to-... [4] https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/programming-j... [5] https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/programming-j... [6] http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2005/6/28/asp-net-vs-rails-ana... [7] http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2005/12/20/neters-tell-scoble-... [8] http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2005/7/5/not-knowing-where-it-... [9] https://h3rald.com/articles/rails-inspired-php-frameworks/ [10] http://grails.1312388.n4.nabble.com/Groovy-on-Rails-is-no-mo... [11] http://cfwheels.org/blog/how-oo-almost-destroyed-business/
Okay. The year is 2005. PHP5 was fresh out of the oven and most people were still on PHP4. From PHP's point of view, there's rumors of something happening in the Ruby community that will be big, and should be talked about [1].
Then Rails 1.0 drops at the end of the year. From this Slashdot thread [2] on the announcement you can gauge the contemporary reaction; comments detail the fact that Rails was breath of fresh air from the configuration-heavy Java frameworks of the day -- represented by Struts [3], but others weren't much different in this regard, as these books from 2002 and 2004 about alternatives to Struts show [4][5]. Several ASP developers, detail their positive experiences in switching their web development to Rails [6][7][8]. The PHP world is forever changed -- by 2006, frameworks inspired by Rails abound [9]. "Ruby on Rails" becomes a popular phrase, some frameworks borrow the naming scheme along with the ideas: "Groovy on Grails" [10] tries to bring Rails' ideas to the Java world, "PHP on Trax" (formerly "PHP on Rails" [9]), "ColdFusion on Wheels" [11].
I'd say Rails made quite the splash.
[1] https://blog.phpdeveloper.org/2005/12/31/25/ [2] https://developers.slashdot.org/story/05/12/14/0034219/ruby-... [3] http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2005/2/22/comparing-struts-to-... [4] https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/programming-j... [5] https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/programming-j... [6] http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2005/6/28/asp-net-vs-rails-ana... [7] http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2005/12/20/neters-tell-scoble-... [8] http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2005/7/5/not-knowing-where-it-... [9] https://h3rald.com/articles/rails-inspired-php-frameworks/ [10] http://grails.1312388.n4.nabble.com/Groovy-on-Rails-is-no-mo... [11] http://cfwheels.org/blog/how-oo-almost-destroyed-business/