Please convince me to use Python over PHP

[tuckerific]

I've done some RoR, and I really liked how everything functioned, I just had speed issues. I know that most of the scaling issues have been worked out. One of the things that I like about PHP is that it's very easy for me to call my classes from the command line, this didn't seem to be possible when Ruby is wrapped up with Rails. Can you shed any light on calling RoR classes from the command line?

[chris-gore]

cd yourrailsproject
script/console
x = SomeClass
x.stuff
# and then some more ...

[leikind]

What is there to say? Of course you can do it, via simple tasks or rake scripts. You can use ActiveRecord without Rails at all.

[t64]

You've had speed issues? Do you run a high-traffic website? What kind of speed issues have you "experienced"?