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So, Django or Rails for someone who wants what you're recommending this for (beginners with light coding background looking to build an app quickly)? Is there

• TheBiv 13y ago
  Rails. I don't know. Bonus commentary: Rails is not for the faint of heart. It will suck, but just dive in and see if you can hack it. Then stay humble and keep on pushing yourself.
• tsurantino 13y ago
  You can just as easily program something like this with Django. One criticism that you may encounter with Django is that it's not as extensible or have as robust of a community. In terms of plugins, you'll need distinguish between django specific plugins and just general python plugins. For example, for Twitter - you'll encounter that there isn't necessarily a one-size-fits-all Twitter plugin that's specific to Django. Instead, you might need an authentication plugin which will store relevant Twitter information (id, token) and then use a Python Twitter plugin to do the kind of neat stuff the author has accomplished. I prefer Django because it's more explicit and there is less magic. This is also good for beginners because it's easier for you to track down where things might be going wrong for you. Django might not have the best community-support (no railscast equivalent).