# Rebuttal to "7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rebuttal-to-7-reasons-i-switched-back-to-php-after-2-years/115423>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 25, 2007, 5:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rebuttal-to-7-reasons-i-switched-back-to-php-after-2-years/115423 "2007-09-25T05:46:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Phlip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Phlip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Phlip)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 5:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rebuttal-to-7-reasons-i-switched-back-to-php-after-2-years/115423/1 "2007-09-25T05:46:06Z")

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Railsters:

> **[O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training](https://www.oreilly.com)**
>
> Gain technology and business knowledge and hone your skills with learning resources created and curated by O'Reilly's experts: live online training, video, books, our platform has content from 200+ of the world's best publishers.

Note the title is “Big Requirements Up Front”.

That’s a Bad Thing.

Those of us working on lite and flexible projects, in internet-time,  
might  
not recognize how bad it is!

And it can catch you when you least expect it.

Then you blame Rails.

–  
Phlip

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**Author:** ![Phlip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Phlip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Phlip)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 2:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rebuttal-to-7-reasons-i-switched-back-to-php-after-2-years/115423/2 "2007-09-25T14:37:08Z")

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Phlip wrote:

> Railsters:
> 
> [O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training](http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/09/big_requirements_up_front.html)
> 
> Note the title is “Big Requirements Up Front”.
> 
> That’s a Bad Thing.
> 
> Those of us working on lite and flexible projects, in internet-time,  
> might not recognize how bad it is!  
> And it can catch you when you least expect it.  
> Then you blame Rails.
> 
> –  
> Phlip

nice article