Jumping off of Rails (for now)

I think it doesn't make business sense for meto use Rails for my site right now. PHP has more off the shelf parts available while every rails job seems to be custom job and rails developers are so much in demand that no one wants to charge less than 150 bucks an hour yup!! and that is if they deem you worthy enough to talk to you.

Basically, the mom and pop outfits are either supposed to roll their own or go bankrupt (OR, use PHP off the shelf scripts if they are fortunate enough to be entering familiar terrain).

So, I think I have made up my mind that Forums, Classifieds, business Directory and some kind of a social bookmarking digg like functionality Would be done via PHP for tingoo.com

I only need to figure out how I am going to make the transition and how exactly I am going to get a proper look and feel designed for the site. Currently it has my design fu, and I gotta admit, IT SUCKS :-) hehe...

But one thing is for sure, I need to focus on the business end and stop bullshitting on the latest chrome coming out of the Rails shop because most of that is too magicky for me to use properly (for now). Hopefully, when I get more time, I'll get back into converting the site into Rails, but right now it is a bit much for me.

Hoping this approach works out from a business perspective.