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If you're not looking to do something super complicated maybe you can look into Sinatra (ruby). I'm not sure if python has something similar if that's your lang

• Herald_MJ 16y ago
  web.py is small, nice and simple (if that's what you mean in terms of "similar" to Sinatra).
• justinxreese 16y ago
  Sinatra is what I came here to suggest when I read "simple" and "rails" used together. So I'll just give your reply a point instead. In addition to web.py (mentioned below), there is also cherrypy. There are a lot of great lightweight frameworks that still give you some of the benefits you get from something robust like rails or django.
  • signal 16y ago
    Pardon my ignorance, but Rails and Django seem pretty lightweight as they are... How are sinatra etc lighter (and thus easier to use somehow)?
    • notahacker 16y ago
      As a simple indication, Sinatra allows you to create an entire site by editing one (logically structured) file if you want. Rails and Django make a few more assumptions about what you're going to do (eg creating a directory structure and giving you easy shortcuts to create forms to edit pages) that are pretty useful when you're building a webapp and want to create multiple reusable parts, but may be overkill for a simple HotorNot type page.