On Dec 5, 7:06 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> did anybody try Ruby on Rails so can give us a feedback ? As someone who tried both, I have personally found that Django better fits my conceptual models than RoR. YMMV, because conceptions are a very personal thing. My friend finds the exact same thing true of RoR. But, the RoRs projects I worked on never got far past the concept phase because I always got hung up implementing them. My current Django project is far more complex than any of my RoRs projects, and I'm making blazing fast progress. It took me about 3 weeks to nail down exactly what I wanted my models and stuff to look like, but since then it takes about 2 days for a portion of my project to go from django-admin.py startapp to "all done except for what depends on parts I haven't written yet". Things I have found easier/better in Django than RoR include: 1) The admin interface. This is what I wish scaffolding was. Scaffolds are nice, but they are implicitly temporary, intended to be built out into something more useful. Because of this, they leave out a lot of very useful things that Django's admin interfaces puts in. The Django admin interface, on the other hand, is permanent. It may not intended for public consumption, but it does make sanity-testing your models (wait! That DecimalField has the wrong max_digits! Doh!) and initial (or ongoing) data entry a lot easier than scaffolding does. 2) Relationships. I suspect that this is the biggest thing that isn't "I like Python better." I just get relationships in Django, I didn't in RoR. Everytime I hit a join or a relationship in my concept, my implementation broke down because I couldn't untangle it in my mind. This is probably mostly because I do not come from a database background. In fact, my random web-dev projects are my only real exposure to databases. 3) I like Python better than Ruby. I wanted to like Ruby, I tried really hard. There aren't a lot of Python programmers where I live (shoot, there aren't a lot of programmers where I live), and my friend was into Ruby, which meant I'd have a sounding board who could actually help with the details rather than just gaping conceptual holes. So I tried. Oh, so hard. Finally, after a year away from Python, I decided to come back and give it a try with a simple CLI ToDo app I was building. Even after a year away from Python, even with having to look up syntax for basic things, even with having to code with the PyDocs open in another window, I was coding as fast as I could type. For the first time in a year, my fingers were the bottleneck, not my brain. It was probably the most effortless, most freeing, and most exciting programming I had ever experienced. I can still read and write Ruby, but I haven't written anything more than corrections or suggestions for code my friend has shown me since August. Python has won me over completely, which is why I like Django, hands-down, better than RoR. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
