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Not looking to start a fanboy-war here; but i would like to hear some opinions. If you were to start a new small to medium sized web app today, would choose Ruby on Rails or Django?
With that said, if you want something up & running asap, pick whatever you're good with and if you want to learn, pick whatever you didn't use before. Django and RoR are comparable.
Not looking to start a fanboy-war here; but i would like to hear some opinions. If you were to start a new small to medium sized web app today, would choose Ruby on Rails or Django?
That said I'll take a stab with it, as I've worked with both. First off they're both MVC frameworks that prioritize a fast, convention-first, development cycle. They both are very well proven, they both have great documentation, and they both have a large number of resources detailing nearly every aspect of their deployment.
So for me it is really a question of these three things:
* what your team is used to
* what resources (capital to buy talent if need be, time to invest in research, etc.) are available to you
* what edge-cases your app might come across over the development cycle (do you need real-time features? might you use a niche data-store? do you have to connect with particular third-party services?)
For each of those points you need to do some planning and decide what the answer if for your team. I believe if you have a grasp on this the answer will be some what evident to you. If it's not, then I think you can just flip a coin because it won't matter to you.
Not looking to start a fanboy-war here; but i would like to hear some opinions. If you were to start a new small to medium sized web app today, would choose Ruby on Rails or Django?
Not looking to start a fanboy-war here; but i would like to hear some opinions. If you were to start a new small to medium sized web app today, would choose Ruby on Rails or Django?
Excited about the new JSONField added: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/ref/contrib/postgres/f...
This might be a good time to mention that Django is always trying to raise funds: https://www.djangoproject.com/fundraising/ The really quick turn around on tickets and pull requests is largely thanks to the Django Fellow, who is paid to manage the community. The last two or three releases have been on time because of the Fellow. The Fellow is funded via Django Software Foundation fundraising activities. If your comp…
It's baffling that such a huge project, used by thousands of companies including at least one billion dollar unicorn, have such a hard time finding money to fund only one single developer. As a solo owner and happy Django user, I've donated what I could and encouraged others to do so but would love to find a solution to entice larger businesses to donate regularly.
Not looking to start a fanboy-war here; but i would like to hear some opinions. If you were to start a new small to medium sized web app today, would choose Ruby on Rails or Django?
I would say if you anticipate any sort of data science and machine learning potential in your application, then you should choose Django (Python) because you'll be in the home turf for this sort of work and you won't have to deal with language context switching... But this is a big if and may not be worth considering.
(scientific) Python is definitely better at stats out of the box than Ruby is though.
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Are those options the state of the art? I wouldn't use either. Edit: added the following... I've dabbled with both, and they suffer from the same kind of problem that all frameworks on top of dynamic languages suffer from. You essentially have to do all the checks that the compiler /should/ do for you, by using unit tests. That gets old fast. Also, on large code bases, I now prefer having real refactoring support. I'…
Care to elaborate?
I'd rather pick something on top of a compiler that is not brain dead.
If I had to do python again, I'd use pyramid or flask, and if I had to do ruby, I'd look at Sinatra.
I stand by my original statement, on the basis that both of the offered frameworks are built upon shaky ground to start with.