I'm a Django/Catalyst user that's evaluating Rails ... I need a Ruby framework, and I'm trying to see if learning Rails is worth it or I should just go for Sinatra + various libs available.
Django has a couple of things I like ... 1) the Forms API In Django I like that it's being decoupled from models ... form objects have fields with validation rules that also can contain html rendering logic ... you can use them just to validate a request and that validation can contain business rules that don't make sense to have in the actual models. But the forms API can also infer those validation rules straight from models, so you have DRY. Looking at Rails tutorials I can't find this decoupling. Validation rules are placed straight into models ... like "validates_confirmation_of :password". So I was wondering about Rails3 ... seeing there's a new ActiveModel abstraction of the ActiveRecord interface, can I use that to have the desired effect? Also, where can I find some good and up to date tutorials on Rails3 ? 2) ORM lazyness I like that Django's ORM and in DBIx::Class, the resultsets constructed are lazy. I see that in Rails 3 there's a new Query API ... http://m.onkey.org/2010/1/22/active-record-query-interface Is that ready for use, is it development? Or should I just use something like Sequel ... can that be plugged-in to Rails? Thanks, -- Alex -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
