This is a helpful list of pros/cons. Thanks. Your "development philosophy" point especially matches up well with my own experience. A friend and I just wrote a website for a new small business ( http://www.final-draft-editing.com/) and chose Django -- after an initial trial of Ruby on Rails -- more or less for the same reason you ended up deciding on it: the Rails framework does many things by "magic" and you have to learn certain conventions to make sure the magic works for you. In django, the interface between application code and framework is much more explicit. Reasonably capable python coders can jump in without as much of a learning curve. (Also, Python is a much more pleasant language to work in than Ruby, IMO.)
-Paul On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Jason <ja...@feedmagnet.com> wrote: > > This is my first post to this group, but I've benefited from reading > other's posts and I'm looking forward to getting more involved. I just > picked Django/Python as the framework for a new company I just > started: FeedMagnet (http://feedmagnet.com). > > We want to get more involved in the community - we already have some > CouchDB integration code that we're going to open source in the next > couple weeks - and I thought a good way to get involved initially > would be to share my experience choosing between Django and Rails. > > I read a lot of other posts on the topic (many of which are linked > from my post) and talked with lots of other developers before making > the decision. The single sentence summary of my post is that Django > and Rails are both great frameworks and it is more important to get > the right team in place and let them pick the one they like best. > > While I definitely favor Django, I think I am still new enough to the > community that my opinions shouldn't be too biased. Hopefully this > post helps other make the right decision for their team/project. > > Here's the link: http://beta.feedmagnet.com/blog/django-vs-rails/ > > > > -- Paul Ragnar Eastlund Me: (relating a joke) "...so I said, 'I'm working at Google. I'm the guy who frantically does research when you type in a query.'" Lorraine: "Oh." (long pause) "But is that really what you do?" Sharon: "...And now, the joke is on you." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
