Damn shame you didn't ask the question last week. We had a great talk down in Wollongong last Thursday at the South Coast LUG on Django. Not recorded unfortunately, but you can find Joshua's slides at http://www.slideshare.net/jpartogi/webdevdjango-2103788
It certainly seems fairly easy to get into (but not being a web developer I have no point of comparison with ruby on rails). Regards, Martin martinvisse...@gmail.com On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:37 AM, david <da...@kenpro.com.au> wrote: > I'm reading up on both, trying to make an intelligent decision which to > use. > > I'm agnostic about ruby/python, although I have a faint feeling that python > may be better. In either case I have to learn the language. > > Does anyone care to venture an opinion? Flame war anyone? > > David > > > > PS: > I've noted that Ruby has a DB migration facility which looks useful. > <quote from article> > There are two key advantages to Rails' incremental migrations compared with > Django. First, Rails provides a standard mechanism for deploying new > releases to already running production systems while preserving data. For > example, if a database column's type is changed from char to integer, the > accompanying Rails migration script would specify the steps required to move > the data from the old char column to the new integer column. To perform > similar operations in Django, the developer would need to write an ad-hoc > SQL script. > > The second advantage is that, being easily rolled back, migrations > encourage a certain amount of experimentation with the model classes and > database schema. Certainly some experimentation with models is possible in > Django, especially if the model code is kept under source code control, but > as data is not preserved through such changes, it is less attractive unless > there is a mechanism for quickly loading test data. > > At the time of writing, the Django development community is working toward > introducing a schema evolution mechanism. > </quote> > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
