Ruby on Rails

Hi Guys, Recently I had a play with Ruby on Rails. I think I fell off my chair with the ease that I got through developing a simple web application. If you haven't already, go have a play with "Rolling with Ruby on Rails": http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html Now, all night I've been thinking as to why this isn't possible with PHP. I couldn't think of a reason. We've got: Templating/facetting (Smarty, or plain ole PHP+HTML) Database Abstraction Layers (ADODB, PEAR::DB) Base classes by the dozen (PEAR! Horde!) A package manager (PEAR again!) But I still find doing a prototype application is godawfully slow. Could PEAR itself benefit from some application 'helpers', similar to what Ruby On Rails has... something to build web applications (or any other concievable application) really quickly, then focus on implementing functionality rather than doing dirty work. Call it PHP in Pails if you need to :P Questions: 1) What have I missed from Rails that we already have in the PHP world... 2) Like it, hate it, let me know what you think... I've a developing itch to scratch :)