Thanks for the advice -- your recommendations against this configuration were a surprise to me... It's making me rethink what I want (and how much I want it). I'll post this as a comment to the first stackoverflow question so others are made aware.
On Monday, September 9, 2013 10:17:10 PM UTC+8, Mauricio de Abreu Antunes wrote: > > The major problem is: everything in Django is mapped to the ORM. Even the > sessions. Sorry for being negative but that is my way to understand this. > > > 2013/9/9 Jonathan Vanasco <jona...@findmeon.com <javascript:>> > >> Honestly, I wouldn't do this. >> >> Django has a lot of "magic" under the hood, and it's ORM does some very >> specific things to make this magic happen. It's not just the auth, it's >> how everything is structured in the database and how the app integrates >> with the database. You're likely to break things and be miserable. Django >> , Rails, etc are "all-in" frameworks -- they provide a stack with several >> decisions made for you; it's all or nothing. >> >> I'd personally suggest you either: >> >> - Continue using Django with their ORM. Create a secondary model that >> uses SqlAlchemy to reflect the Django mapping. That will let you use >> SqlAlchemy to do advanced read queries. >> >> - Use a different framework ( Pyramid, Flask, etc ; many have auth >> plugins that work with SqlAlchemy models ) >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sqlalchemy" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to sqlalchemy+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to sqlal...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > > > -- > *Mauricio de Abreu Antunes* > * > * > Github: https://github.com/mauricioabreu > Twitter: https://twitter.com/maugzoide > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.