Please let me state off the cuff that I'm not after a big "Python Vs Ruby" war or anything here! I'm trying to make the switch to Python for my web development work as I've been using it for quite some time for other programming work (albeit mainly hobby and personal interest projects) as I'm getting to the stage where the need for a real MVC capable language framework is a must simply to save some time and PHP just isn't cutting it (although CakePHP is all right and the new Zend framework looks to hold some promise).
Here's where I'm in a pickle! I would prefer to stick with Python as I am enjoying it BUT Ruby on Rails is simply too hard to deny a look in. The ease that it provides in generating scaffolding and the intuitive templating engine is just plain good, adding in to this the RadRails Eclipse plugin for a beautiful IDE (I know, I know how great vim/emacs/whatever is but still, if RadRails is going to save some time frankly I'm liking it already!). I'm aware that Pylons is trying to compete with Rails in the near future but I'm just not clear on how directly they are trying to compete...will Pylons have the same generation functions and other time saving goodies that RoR has or am I barking up the wrong tree? Basically I'm not going to abandon Python because I find it fits me better as a language than Ruby, but when I need to be able to develop good, stable MVC web apps in a small amount of time I don't want to be wasting my time waiting for Python to deliver something it's just not going to (I also forgot to mention I don't want to run on a custom little webserver, I prefer the piece of mind I have with Apache - in true LAMP style :P). So I'm asking for ANY opinions here! For datadriven web apps that need to be able to support small and large scale distros, can Python deliver or is RoR the way to go? Thanks for any help you guys throw at me!! Oh, and any examples like current big webapps to back up a particular point of view would be greatly appreciated too! Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
