On Dec 3, 2009, at 6:34 AM, Javier Guerra wrote: > first of all, if you want Rails, you know where to find it. i (and > several others, i guess) like Django in part because it's *not* Rails. > :-)
Django has several superior features to rails that drive me to use it. The admin is much better than active scaffold, there are a number of already written apps, geodjango postgis integration, scalability, etc..... That doesn't mean I have to think it is superior in every way and when its not, I'm apt to point them out. No good idea should go unstolen IMO. I'm going to stick with preferring convention over configuration. If I want to write boilerplate over and over I'll use J2EE. :-) I've solved my urls problem for now (though I'm open to more elegant solutions) but I think not having a default url scheme is lame. Rails has routes which means you can rearrange the url patterns anyway you like, just like django. In practice this is mostly a waste of time and you just use the defaults. That doesn't mean I have zero custom routes in all my apps, but I have very few because the defaults are so well chosen. Django, OTOH, provides no sensible default url scheme at all out of the box. I don't see that as a feature, its a pointless time drain. I've read the little poem. I disagree with about half of it. If you can't take constructive criticism of your toolkit (I have plenty negative to say about rails and any of the other dozen web app development environments I know too) then you should maybe put down the kool-aid and walk away. No environment is perfect. I do thank everyone who has been so generous with help so far and thanks in advance for any future help. I'm trying to learn python, django, postgis, and a whole other raft of technologies all at once. Its a steep curve and I can use all the help I can get. -Todd Blanchard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
