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> The majority of our applications are written in ruby, based on either Ruby on Rails or Sinatra. > A few components are written in Scala and built on top of P
by arocks 14y ago
> The majority of our applications are written in ruby, based on either Ruby on Rails or Sinatra.
> A few components are written in Scala and built on top of Play 2.0
> We’re running Mapit from MySociety which is built on top of Django
Thank god it is not another Drupal based government site!
- tomekEl 14y agowordpress this time
- andyn 14y agoTo be fair, Drupal et al. are great for throwing at non-technical users and letting them create their own content.
- arocks 14y agoAbsolutely agree. But for an entity like the UK govt having plentiful resources, it would be sheer laziness to go with a solution like Drupal due to ease in initial setup. Besides, most Drupal sites look sort of kludgy in appearance.
- Pwnguinz 14y agoYou do realize the "appearance" of a site has nothing to do with the underlying stack, right? A Django site can appear like a Rails site can appear like a Drupal site can appear like a ... You can argue for differences in behaviour, sure; but appearance?
- debacle 14y agoI disagree. Drupal makes it hard to do easy things, creates a lot of unnecessary HTML, and makes it very hard to do things not The Drupal Way.
- weego 14y agoThank god the people who consistently failed to deliver large websites based around whatever the stack is didn't manage to get involved. The ones I had to work with all seemed to gravitate around education budgets, but I'm sure it's not the only dept (I'm looking at you SchoolsWeb).