Ares

Of course you are gonna use Angular or Backbone for the javascript framework at one point. I normally use Node or Angular as well. PHP can't do everything anyway.

Oh lastly, the main thing that hooked mo on rails(besides the testing) was the money. No point denying it :D

Hey! Sorry I just got back home. Yes, we often use HTML, CSS for frontend, then MySQL, PHP, and we do all customized stuff the client needs, and whatever is needed. All run by our framework. Waaaaay better than cakephp, code igniter, and the like.

Of course the money. ;)

If I want my code to look pretty and have enough time, I use Rails for the whole project, HAML for templates, SASS or LESS for the CSS, jQuery or any other JS framework, PostgreSQL for the database, Cucumber for Behavior tests, RSPEC for other tests like integration. I use Git for version control and put the repo in Github or Bitbucket(public on github, private on bitbucket).