I just wanted to post a thank you to the Cake team for being such
brilliant people.
Also a big thanks to everyone in the community helping everyone in
their own ways.

Note: Sorry, I think this turned into one of these Cake vs Rails
posts.

I ran across Rails in the early fall of 2005. Thought the concept was
great but could not justify jumping onboard with the poor hosting
support at the time. Found CakePHP a few months later and have been
using it on an off ever since. From time to time I have been tempted
to take another peak at Rails. They do have a lot of strong hype,
after all.

So, recently I had a reason to do some more serious revision. A new
project, in-house hosting, possibly a lot of traffic one day. I spent
a few days looking into Rails again. I was totally ready to make the
jump, Ruby-books in-hand. CakePHP once again came out on-top, v1.2 had
a lot to do with it but the community and documentation played a big
role.

* Cake has great documentation - I see a lot of complaints but I have
taken a look at the Rails API-docs, IMHO horrible by comparison. The
docs can me improved and more complete but they are not that bad when
you consider the next point on my list:
* Cake has a great community - So does Rails but for Cake I see more
snippets and focused, relevant tutorials. Most of the questions I get
in my head already have answers (here, in a blog, the bakery or the
forge).
* Cake has not yet taken any backward steps - To me some changes in
Rails versions are steps backward. E.g. the way scaffolding has
changed. Cake has yet to disappoint me in a feature-change.

Rails has a lot in its favor. But for me the docs and the community
surrounding CakePHP reassures me. I am of-course not impartial by any
stretch of the imagination. But I still thought I would share my
opinions.

cheers !

And, if you are wondering about the title: You haven't forgot this
(very old) internet classic have you?
http://www.ikissyou.org/

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