I just stumbled upon a great-looking project, to make Zope3 more approachable to mere mortals such as myself. Echoing the ROR mantra of "convention over configuration", the Grok project (http:// grok.zope.org/) aims to stand on the shoulders of Zope3, while providing the ease of development of ROR (for instance, no more ZCML).
Philipp von Weitershausen has a set of slides at http://philikon.de/files/grok-bbq-sprint.pdf, and the Grok project page links to a number of tutorials. Am I the last person to hear about this? -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list