*Long time lurker; first time poster*. My partner and I are standarizing on Django / Python for the front end of www.ookles.com, our new startup. We're both php folk and I've convinced him that Django is better than ruby (based, honestly, on my respect for Simon and Adrian rather than a real analysis; transitive geek fu; any who).
The issue at hand for us is we have essentially one application: Ookles which is a highly interactive web site. Now having scaled a MySQL app (lets not go down the postgres discussion; we're using MySQL 5 so we have views and stored procs) to the terabyte level at my last gig, I learned the lesson of "DO NOT; REPEAT DO NOT; PUT EVERYTHING IN ONE DB". But it at least feels like Django is really oriented around the concept of one db. To wit:
I've been playing with django today (really like it so far!). To
start a project, you define your database model with a set of
sub-classes representing each database table. Once you've defined
everything you can do a couple of things, either "
django-admin.py sql app" which will spit out an sql script for you to
create your database tables with or you can do "django-admin.py install
app" and that will create all the tables for you. Fantastic stuff and
if you can get your head around doing it this way, then it saves time
by having the model setup and the database.
So far, Django feels much more solid than rails. Yes, you have to
do more but you feel good about doing it. Relying on rails magic is
sometimes a little hard to swallow :)
(From my co founder Mike)
Now I haven't hacked Django much myself yet (I've been working on the back end tools, db loader and overall schema). What support does Django have for multiple db stuff?
I apologize if this is a real newbie question. I did run through the basic docs (great job btw; thank you). Also we'll need to write a baseline simple db backed, captcha class near immediately to keep out the spam bots. Any interest in our contributing that back?
Thanks
Scott
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