Rails vs. PHP: MVC or View-centric? - Brief article compares 1.0 prerelease RoR, with PHP, for prototyping Web applications, in context of Model-View-Controller. Many forum comments. - http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/2005/06/11/rails-vs-php-mvc-or-view-centric/
What Is Ruby on Rails - Curt Hibbs explores parts of RoR to show the sources of its productivity gains and flexibility. Descriptions, instructions, screenshots. [ONLamp.com] - http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/10/13/what_is_rails.html
Code Generation: The Real Lesson of Rails - Weblog article treats static versus dynamic code generation: Can Java have some of the benefits of Rails by taking a wrapping rather than a mapping approach to persistence? - http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=152273