If we are to held an idealist view, no. But it would just be ideology making up for a lack of the same volume of production being done with Ruby compared to PHP.

Remember the "worse is better" motto? Worse could also be more productive.

Now, I don't care why PHP is more productive in actual volume of production --instead of more productive as in "it makes you more efficient". It could be because of "stupid" programmers that cannot adapt to Ruby, because of inertia, because it is fast to start with, because it has a more vibrant ecosystem than Ruby/RoR, because of large amounts of code already built with it used to bootstrap newer projects, because of lack of RoR publicity, because of just being there first, etc etc. Thing is: by usage and number-of-sites metrics, it is.