On Mar 6, 11:03 pm, Jason Hsu <jhsu802...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm currently in the process of learning Ruby on Rails. I'm going through > the Rails for Zombies tutorial, and I'm seeing the power of Rails. > > I still need to get a Ruby on Rails site up and running for the world to see. > (My first serious RoR site will profile mutual funds from a value investor's > point of view.) > > I have an existing web site and project called Doppler Value Investing > (dopplervalueinvesting.com) that uses Drupal to display the web pages and > Python web-scraping scripts to create *.csv and *.html files showing > information on individual stocks. My site has a tacked-on feel to it, and I > definitely want to change the setup. > > At a future time, I will rebuild my Doppler Value Investing web site in > either Ruby on Rails or Django. The Ruby on Rails route will require > rewriting my Python script in Ruby. The Django route will require learning > Django. (I'm not sure which one will be easier.) > > My questions: > 1. Why is Ruby on Rails much more popular than Django?
"Where there is choice there is no freedom" http://www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net/en/1954/1954-03-03-jiddu-krishnamurti-8th-public-talk Python-for-web offered so much choice -- zope, django, turbogears, cherrypy, web.py etc etc -- that the newbie was completely drowned. With Ruby there is only one choice to make -- choose Ruby and rails follows. Anyone who's used emacs will know this as the bane of FLOSS software -- 100 ways of doing something and none perfect -- IOW too much spurious choice. GvR understood and rigorously implemented a dictum that Nicklaus Wirth formulated decades ago -- "The most important thing about language design is what to leave out." Therefore Python is a beautiful language. Unfortunately the same leadership did not carry over to web frameworks and so we have a mess. I guess the situation is being corrected with google putting its artillery behind django. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
