At the time Ruby on Rails released to the external developers, it has since then taken the programming world by storm. Its core is the meta programming, enabling developers to learn and code faster as so much of the codes has already been offered to the developers. However, it does not mean that PHP developers are all throwing away PHP language and take up Ruby.

It’s interesting to see PHP community, how they respond to this Web framework. Some of them has released their own designed Web frameworks that based on PHP. A typical example is Akelos, claimed as being a Ruby on Rails port to PHP. To promote this newly born PHP framework, Akelos also created a video “Creating a Blog in 20 Minutes using the Akelos PHP Framework” screencast on their Web site.

What is the Perl developers respond to this Ruby on Rails? In the meantime, there is an established company, BBC of UK, a long time Perl user, has announced that they created their own internal-use Perl on Rails. Using this framework they have launched a new project called BBC programmes, as well as the proposed next-generation of iPlayer also built on this framework, according to BBC blog.