Django vs. Rails: The Dead-Tree Edition

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Post by Harkins » Sun, Jan 18, 2009, 8:16 PM UTC

Django vs. Rails: The Dead-Tree Edition
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Re: Django vs. Rails: The Dead-Tree Edition

#2

Post by hbien » Sun, Jan 18, 2009, 8:41 PM UTC

I don't understand, why does it matter?

Re: Django vs. Rails: The Dead-Tree Edition

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Post by jstraszheim » Sun, Jan 18, 2009, 8:52 PM UTC

hbien wrote: post #2

I don't understand, why does it matter?

If it did matter, what would we learn by comparing .NET books w/ Rails books, or Seaside books with Django books. Surely the number of books isn't the point.

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Post by snprbob86 » Sun, Jan 18, 2009, 8:59 PM UTC

jstraszheim wrote: post #3

hbien wrote: post #2

I don't understand, why does it matter?

If it did matter, what would we learn by comparing .NET books w/ Rails books, or Seaside books with Django books. Surely the number of books isn't the point.

A point well illustrated by this particular book from the Rails list: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470374950/pushcx-20/...

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Post by tptacek » Sun, Jan 18, 2009, 9:04 PM UTC

Clearly I am also making a mistake by not using Visual Basic.

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Post by andr » Sun, Jan 18, 2009, 9:09 PM UTC

In the spirit of the article, I prove that Jesus is better than Rails, because there are 779 times more books about him.

Jesus books (333,560): http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1232312844/ref=sr_nr_i_0?ie=UTF8...

Rails books (428): http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstrip...

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Post by rob » Sun, Jan 18, 2009, 9:11 PM UTC

That's funny, in the beginning the Rails people used to brag how you only needed one book and would show this picture:

http://i44.tinypic.com/98uhs6.png

Now it looks like they turned into Java?

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jan 18, 2009, 9:18 PM UTC

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Post by markbao » Sun, Jan 18, 2009, 9:27 PM UTC

Alright, I'm a Rails developer, but I don't understand why Rails is better than Django because it has more books written about it.

Is it because Rails is popular and emits a lot more noise than Django? Yeah, probably.

Re: Django vs. Rails: The Dead-Tree Edition

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Post by mechanical_fish » Sun, Jan 18, 2009, 9:28 PM UTC

hbien wrote: post #2

I don't understand, why does it matter?

Well, the article says:

I’ll write about why this matters tomorrow.

Tune in tomorrow!

All I can figure is that either (a) Java and/or PHP are about to declare "victory" again, whatever that means, or (b) it will be concluded that the framework with the smallest number of books is superior because the docs are DRYer than everybody else's docs. Which might well be another moral victory for some obscure Lisp dialect.

I'm holding out for option (c): A collectible card game in which teams of software books are assembled to fight holy wars against each other. SICP, I choose you!