It might not be, but our Rails heads sure do like talking about PHP a lot.
If a technology is truly supposed to be accessible it needs to actually, be accessible instead of carrying an air of superiority, otherwise software continues to suffer.
Rails isn't supposed to be accessible the way PHP is, i.e. built into every shared hosting account with unlimited flexibility as to what you can do with it. If that was the right way to go for web applications, there would have been no need for Rails in the first place, since PHP would have been sufficient.
I'm not sure where it was said PHP is only shared hosting. Besides, many places start on shared hosting, kind of like Heroku for rails code, no?
I'm also not sure where the idea is coming from that Rails shouldn't be accessible to developers. If you have some wider posts or links I'd love to read some more.
Again, is that your opinion / preference, or can you share a source? Most interested to see where this is coming from beyond things I could google myself.
If a technology is truly supposed to be accessible it needs to actually, be accessible instead of carrying an air of superiority, otherwise software continues to suffer.