It would be interesting to know what are the things that can be done in one framework but either require a lot of method overriding or code modification(making framework not so productive for production purposes) or is impossible to do in other framework.
Ask HN: Things that you can do with django but not with rails and vice versa.
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#2Django: Can program in Python.
Rails: Can't program in Python.
Re: Ask HN: Things that you can do with django but not with rails and vice versa.
#3I'm still a rails newbie so I might be mistaken, but it seems there is no template inheritance in rails.
I absolutely love the way of thinking template inheritance is driving me to. Rails seems to take a similar approach as JavaScript frameworks and follows a more widget like approach (layouts) or a simple inclusion of template parts (partials).
I know that is true for erb, maybe rails adds something on top of that I'm not aware of.
Honestly I'm rather annoyed by the lack of template inheritance in a lot of templating engines. Partials just don't cut it.
Re: Ask HN: Things that you can do with django but not with rails and vice versa.
#4Ruby vs. Python is a frequent topic on HN [1] [2] [3] [4]. These discussions invariably focus on web development because of (a) the nature of HN, and (b) the fact that most Ruby applications are web applications.
I located all those references by my comment history, so I participated in all of the discussions. Generally I pointed out how painful Ruby's syntax is, how beginner-unfriendly the syntax plus the complexity of Rails is, how favorably Python contrasts, and then posed this Ask HN's very question.
The discussion thereafter often rapidly degenerated into a flame war, but one time I got some rather informative answers [5].
[1] Can anyone explain why Ruby is so popular? -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5783967
[2] Python for Ruby programmers -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5294318
[3] Ask HN: Why do so many people hate Ruby? -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5157886
[4] Off-topic flamewar -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5872899
Re: Ask HN: Things that you can do with django but not with rails and vice versa.
#5I'm still a rails newbie so I might be mistaken, but it seems there is no template inheritance in rails. I absolutely love the way of thinking template inheritance is driving me to. Rails seems to take a similar approach as JavaScript frameworks and follows a more widget like approach (layouts) or a simple inclusion of template parts (partials). I know that is true for erb, maybe rails adds something on top of that I…
Is this what you mean by "template inheritance"?
http://railscasts.com/episodes/269-template-inheritance