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Wouldn't Django, with its automatic admin, be better for replacing Access than Rails? The scaffolding in Rails is pretty bare-bones, but the Django admin (IMHO)
by kylec 17y ago
Wouldn't Django, with its automatic admin, be better for replacing Access than Rails? The scaffolding in Rails is pretty bare-bones, but the Django admin (IMHO) is good enough to be used as the actual app if the situation warrants.
- dasil003 17y agoMaybe a bit closer, but still a huge miss. Both Rails and Django are frameworks for developers, whereas Access is more of a "prosumer" product for clever office workers. If the OA was so impressed with Access, maybe he should learn real programming, because Rails and Django will never be as consumer-oriented as Access. You could build an Access-like program on top of some of the guts, but it would inevitably be just as dumbed-down and cumbersome as Access. The vision is misguided.
- jherdman 17y agoI've been wondering about Django as a MS Access replacement as of late. I currently use either Rails or Sinatra, but Ruby has one major flaw as an MS Access replacement: it has lousy _native_ libraries for generating MS Excel files. You can get around this by using JRuby via the Apache POI library. I'm finding that setting up a JRuby stack is currently more complex than an plain old Ruby stack. My understanding is that there are much better libraries for doing MS Excel generation and manipulation with Python.