Re: Django vs. Ruby on Rails

2012-01-28 Thread sigep311
> 3) Using one or the other for Geographic Information Systems work; I work at NASA/JPL and have been using Python for 1 year, and have been working in GIS for 3 years. GIS is built around 2 core languages, Java for back-end servers and largely due to the amazing GDAL library. The other dominate

Re: Django vs. Ruby on Rails

2012-01-28 Thread Greg Donald
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Brian D wrote: > I'm wondering about diving into Ruby on Rails to qualify for a > position, or spending my time instead going deeper into a full bells > and whistles prototype Django site and betting on jobs opening up in > my field. This is really a GIS career pro

Re: Django vs. Ruby on Rails

2012-01-27 Thread Chris Czub
> 3) Using one or the other for Geographic Information Systems work; I know a lot of GIS people like GeoDjango a lot. I can't comment more than that as I'm not familiar with the field, but it says something that I've heard of GeoDjango but nothing similar for Rails. On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:59

Re: Django vs. Ruby on Rails

2012-01-27 Thread Tim Chase
On 01/19/12 09:59, Brian D wrote: 1) Comparing the framework to Django; In the broadest strokes (and from my understanding of it), Rails defaults to introspecting your database and building internal models of it while Django specifies models first and then builds the database out of it. Dja

Django vs. Ruby on Rails

2012-01-27 Thread Brian D
I'm wondering about diving into Ruby on Rails to qualify for a position, or spending my time instead going deeper into a full bells and whistles prototype Django site and betting on jobs opening up in my field. This is really a GIS career professional question. Has anyone here crossed the fence ov