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Ruby on rails is solid framework and is more modern than PHP
Both have their advantages, choose PHP if you want to deploy code choose rubyonrails if you want run software as a service
PHP is better as it is highly flexible and is not convention based
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Locomotive has support for ruby on rails 2.1