I started a draft of a Rails vs Django post a few weeks ago. It has been something I have been meaning to do as Django is turning into the designer’s language of choice. This is absurd to me, Ruby is a far more aesthetic language. I have many arguments as to why I think Rails is far superior to Django. It is proving tasking not to post all my notes. I will give arguments on both sides (if you do Django and have something to contribute, please contact me).
I will start this series off with a very simple comparison of the codes. Taking the number #2 Top-rated snippet and then convert it to Rails code.
Thanks on this series go to Sandro Turriate, Cal Henderson and Jeff Croft
Edit- After talking with a friend, who was apparently offended by this post, I thought I’d go into more detail about this. This series of posts were not meant to offend anyone but merely give light to other languages. My friends that have forayed into Python have been both designers and developers. This post was to the designers out there who have chosen Python. I wanted to show them that there is still better. Even if they kept with Python, I wanted to show them where Django could improve so they could make their life easier even if they stick with their language. When designing, I love hearing what I do wrong, so I can do better. Same goes for programming. Others apparently do not share this with me.
