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I have some experience using RoR but I'm considering Django for my next project. Could you elaborate on what you liked more about RoR compared to the later?

• pmontra 9y ago
  The answer could be extremely long but the single most important point is that the Python frameworks I used leave developers on their own to do architectural choices. Combined with some poor framework defaults [1] I always saw very poor project structures (my sample space is 3). I inherited projects with a single thousands line view (Django) or controller (Web2Py). Rails would basically force developers to create multiple controllers. Apparently developers using Django and Web2Py don't understand they should or can do the same. If you're good at designing backends and the project is yours, no problem. You'll have to work more and reinvent some wheels but you'll get exactly what you want, no compromises. If the project is for a customer and then you move on to another customer, do your best to leave a project that the next developer can understand easily. As every Django project can look very different, that's not granted. On the other side every Rails project looks the same and every project I moved into was well organized. I'm a freelance and my customers call me to add features or fix things. They don't have time and budget for heavy refactoring so those multi thousand lines files are still there, minus some code I managed to extract. [1] The poor defaults are that a single views.py and controller/default.py are almost all you need to run the app. Hence the 2670 lines default.py I'm wrestling against now. Luckily that was a small intranet backend.