PHP2Shell, made public on 21 October 2026, is two critical holes in PHP that can hand an attacker control of your server with no login. Attack attempts started on 17 October, four days before the fix, and PHP 8.1 or older will stay unpatched for good. Don't worry: we move your PHP app to Ruby on Rails and launch it in 7 days. Find out who PHP2Shell affects.
Our PHP to Ruby on Rails migration services in USA and UK start-ups and small product companies suit teams that want to ship features faster with fewer developers. Rails makes most decisions for you, from folder layout to database naming, so a two-person team spends its time on the product instead of on plumbing.
We rebuild your app on a current Rails release. Tables become Active Record models with schema migrations, logins move to Devise or the authentication generator that newer Rails ships with, and pages get fast, app-like behaviour from Hotwire's Turbo and Stimulus without a separate JavaScript front end. Background jobs run through Active Job on Sidekiq or Solid Queue.
Techno Mantraa is a web team in India with more than a decade of development work. We keep hours that cover part of the US Eastern day and the UK day, and we write Rails the conventional way so any Rails developer you hire later feels at home.
Why product teams pick Rails over PHP
Rails was built to help small teams move quickly. If your PHP code makes every change slow, these are the parts that get easier.
Convention over configuration
Models, controllers, views, mailers and jobs all have a known place. New developers find their way around a Rails app in hours, not weeks.
Rich UI without a SPA
Turbo updates parts of a page over the wire and Stimulus adds small bits of behaviour, so you get a modern feel while keeping one codebase.
Generators and a mature gem set
Admin panels, payments with Stripe, file uploads with Active Storage and email with Action Mailer are standard pieces rather than custom builds.
Everything we carry over to Rails
- PHP pages rebuilt as Rails controllers and ERB views
- Tables mapped to Active Record models with validations
- Schema kept in Rails migrations, current data imported intact
- User accounts moved with existing bcrypt hashes so passwords still work
- File uploads moved to Active Storage on S3 or your disk
- Emails sent through Action Mailer, jobs through Active Job
- Stripe, PayPal and other API integrations
- Tests with RSpec or Minitest, deploy with Kamal or your host
A week-long route from PHP to Rails
Day 1: Walkthrough
We go through every screen and table with you, decide what Rails gives for free and what needs custom code, and fix the price.
Days 2-4: Generate and port
New Rails app, models and migrations, then controllers and views for each feature, with Turbo where pages need live updates.
Days 5-6: Staging review
You click through the Rails version on a staging URL while we run the test suite and check imported data line by line.
Day 7: Ship it
DNS or proxy points to Rails, old URLs redirect where they changed, and we watch logs and error alerts after launch.
Plain PHP vs Ruby on Rails
What working on the app is like before and after the switch.
| PHP codebase | Rails app | |
|---|---|---|
| Layout | Each developer's own folder style | Standard Rails structure |
| Database | SQL inside page files | Active Record models and migrations |
| Auth | Hand-written login code | Devise or the Rails auth generator |
| Interactivity | jQuery snippets on each page | Hotwire Turbo and Stimulus |
| Background work | Cron calling PHP scripts | Active Job with Sidekiq or Solid Queue |
| New features | Slow, with fear of breaking things | Quick, with generators and tests |
Why choose Techno Mantraa for Rails
We do not bend Rails to look like your old PHP. We move your features into proper Rails patterns so the app stays easy to change.
Idiomatic Rails your next hire will like
Skinny controllers, clear models and tests from the first commit, so the codebase is an asset when you grow the team.
Fixed fee set after a free audit, no hourly meter running.
We sign an NDA before seeing code and hand over the repo at launch.
Rails migration for US and UK start-ups
We built this offer for founders and small product teams in the United States and the United Kingdom who are stuck on a PHP codebase that slows down every release. Our working day reaches into US Eastern mornings and UK afternoons, with replies on the same day.
An offshore Rails team costs a fraction of a local hire in San Francisco, New York or London, and you still get a fixed price, an NDA and one person who owns the delivery.
Official sources: PHP supported versions · Ruby on Rails
Frequently asked questions
Straight answers about our PHP to Ruby on Rails Migration service.
Most small and medium PHP apps are live on Rails in 7 days. Very large apps get a phased plan, with the first set of features running on Rails within the same 7 days.
Yes. Rails is actively maintained, newer releases add Solid Queue, Solid Cache and Kamal for simple deploys, and many busy products still run on it.
If your hosting only supports PHP, or your team only knows PHP and will maintain the code, Laravel is the closer move. Rails pays off when you will hire Rails developers.
No. We import existing password hashes and check them on login, upgrading each one to the Rails format the first time the user signs in.
Yes, for the migrated app. It runs on Ruby, not PHP, so the flaw does not reach it, and we switch off the old PHP server once the move is complete.
Yes. We join calls in US Eastern or UK hours, answer the same day, sign your NDA and agree a fixed price before any code is written.
Is your PHP app still on an old version?
Send us the URL or the repository. We check it for the PHP2Shell flaw and old code for free, and tell you what a 7-day migration looks like.
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