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I've tried both Django and Rails. I tried Rails first as Ruby is a lot closer to lisp than Python. Personally I find Python a bit restrictive, but fairly easy

by vikram 18y ago

I've tried both Django and Rails. I tried Rails first as Ruby is a lot closer to lisp than Python. Personally I find Python a bit restrictive, but fairly easy to read. If you don't have a lot of experience with Rails/Ruby, Django is the clear choice. It's very well documented and it just works. I was able to get Django in the first 10 minutes of using it and after that over the next day most of the concepts became clearer. I found with Rails, the lack of familiarity with some of the advanced Ruby features made it very difficult for me to read the code. So I was coding blind a bit. Someone's done this already: http://www.vaporbase.com/postings/Evaluating_Web_Development_Frameworks:_Rails_and_Django_ http://www.vaporbase.com/postings/Evaluating_Web_Development...(part_1/15)

notdarkyet 18y ago
That link is a bad one but I found one that has all of the articles listed, http://www.vaporbase.com/rails-django http://www.vaporbase.com/rails-django Thanks that is a great resource and will definitely read it to help with my decision, but after skimming he only speaks of installing on his iMac, and one of my main concerns is usage with a hosting service. The main reason I asked this question is because I have more trust in hearing as many diverse opinions from this community as possible rather than a reliance on what a few individuals wrote on the topic. This community helped me so much on my last question and I hoped I could get a definitive result again.