From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2005-07-17T08:55:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Just seen on c.l.py

In article <05th9VCgqN2CFwW4@objmedia.demon.co.uk>,
Stephen Kellett  <snail@objmedia.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Hi Folks,
>
>Just browsing c.l.py and found this advertised as a Rails killer... hmmm
>not very friendly.
>
>        http://www.djangoproject.com/
>
>Make of it what you will.
>

I'm not much of a web programmer nor have I done any SQL so when I went 
through Curt Hibb's Rails tutorial I kept thinking "why do I have to mess 
with this SQL stuff?  Why can't I describe the data/tables in Ruby and 
then have Rails take care of all that stuff for me" (it seemed somehow like 
the DRY principle was being violated).

So the first thing I notice about Django just now was:

"Design your model
Start by describing your database layout in Python code. Django's 
data-model API offers many rich ways of representing your models -- ...

Install it
Next, run the Django command-line utility. It'll create the database 
tables for you automatically, in the database specified in your Django 
settings."

This seems appealing.  Is there a way of doing this in Rails?

Phil