From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-10-09T03:01:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. Rails

Giles Bowkett wrote:
>> I don't know about other Python web app frameworks, but I don't think
>> it's fair to classify Django as a "Rails clone" or "copycat". Django and
>> Rails were developed independently more or less at the same time. And
>> they were both abstracted from different web apps. As a consequence,
>> there are some things that Django does well and Rails does poorly, and
>> vice versa.
> 
> Can you elaborate on that? Your statement about the history of Django
> is absolutely accurate, I should have phrased the question
> differently. For what particular sort of problems would you recommend
> Django over Rails?
> 

Well, I would favor Rails for applications like BaseCamp and Django for
applications like running a newspaper web site. :)

But seriously, folks, I don't know enough about Django to be able to
prefer it for anything -- I'm too far down the Ruby/Rails path and I
know *zero* Python. There was a whole conference last year comparing the
two frameworks, and the whole enchilada is on the web somewhere. I think
the conclusion was that they were both good, that Django could learn
from Rails and Rails could learn from Django, and that Rails would
always be in Ruby and Django would always be in Python. Google for
"Snakes and Rubies".