Re: Ruby on Rails or Perl's Maypole..is there a Python equivalent

2005-03-07 Thread Gary Nutbeam
Learning Ruby to use Rails is tempting. Iwan van der Kleyn wrote: > Gary Nutbeam wrote: >> needing to learn Ruby. > > But why wouldn't you just use Rails and learn Ruby in the process? The > "effort" required to learn Ruby pales in comparisson to the advantages > using Ruby on Rails might give y

Re: Ruby on Rails or Perl's Maypole..is there a Python equivalent

2005-03-07 Thread Gary Nutbeam
John J. Lee wrote: I know mono runs on linux but I want nothing to do with it unless absolutely necessary. > Gary Nutbeam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> D H wrote: > [...] >> > Check out Castle on Rails for .NET/Mono. It is still in early >> > development, but you can use it with C#, VB, or boo,

Re: Ruby on Rails or Perl's Maypole..is there a Python equivalent

2005-03-05 Thread Iwan van der Kleyn
Gary Nutbeam wrote: needing to learn Ruby. But why wouldn't you just use Rails and learn Ruby in the process? The "effort" required to learn Ruby pales in comparisson to the advantages using Ruby on Rails might give you, imho. Ruby is an excellent language, not much different from Python with it

Re: Ruby on Rails or Perl's Maypole..is there a Python equivalent

2005-03-04 Thread John J. Lee
Gary Nutbeam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > D H wrote: [...] > > Check out Castle on Rails for .NET/Mono. It is still in early > > development, but you can use it with C#, VB, or boo, and I'm sure > > eventually with IronPython as well. > > Thanks for the feedback. I should have been more specific

Re: Ruby on Rails or Perl's Maypole..is there a Python equivalent

2005-03-04 Thread bruno modulix
Gary Nutbeam wrote: I count zpt as xml because page templates can operate in html or xml mode. I can understand this, but from a practical POV, ZPT are mainly (x)html templates. A valid (x)html page is a valid ZPT too. This has nothing in common with the hundreds of complicated XML conf files nee

Re: Ruby on Rails or Perl's Maypole..is there a Python equivalent

2005-03-03 Thread Steve Holden
Gary Nutbeam wrote: I count zpt as xml because page templates can operate in html or xml mode. This is not a troll. It is a lot of work in Zope to create interfaces to relational data for anything more than simple data models. It's a lot less work in Maypole or Rails, but I don't want to go back

Re: Ruby on Rails or Perl's Maypole..is there a Python equivalent

2005-03-03 Thread Gary Nutbeam
Thanks for the feedback. I should have been more specific though and mentioned this has done on Linux (client and server). D H wrote: > Gary Nutbeam wrote: > >> I've noticed that the Perl camp has a very nice web/database environment >> called Maypole. Ruby has the Rails environment which on the

Re: Ruby on Rails or Perl's Maypole..is there a Python equivalent

2005-03-03 Thread Gary Nutbeam
I count zpt as xml because page templates can operate in html or xml mode. This is not a troll. It is a lot of work in Zope to create interfaces to relational data for anything more than simple data models. It's a lot less work in Maypole or Rails, but I don't want to go back to writing in Perl,

Re: Ruby on Rails or Perl's Maypole..is there a Python equivalent

2005-03-03 Thread D H
Gary Nutbeam wrote: I've noticed that the Perl camp has a very nice web/database environment called Maypole. Ruby has the Rails environment which on the surface seems similar to Maypole. I can't find anything in Python that ties a database to a web interface anywhere near as well as Ruby on Rails o

Re: Ruby on Rails or Perl's Maypole..is there a Python equivalent

2005-03-03 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Gary Nutbeam a écrit : I've noticed that the Perl camp has a very nice web/database environment called Maypole. Ruby has the Rails environment which on the surface seems similar to Maypole. I can't find anything in Python that ties a database to a web interface anywhere near as well as Ruby on Rail

Re: Ruby on Rails or Perl's Maypole..is there a Python equivalent

2005-03-03 Thread Gary Nutbeam
Two out of three on the home made approach I was thinking about. Quixote, Cheetah and SQLObject. Thanks for the link. I'm perusing it now. deelan wrote: > Gary Nutbeam wrote: > (...) >> Does anyone know of something similar to Rails or Maypole in Python? > > you may want to take a look at sub

Re: Ruby on Rails or Perl's Maypole..is there a Python equivalent

2005-03-03 Thread deelan
Gary Nutbeam wrote: (...) Does anyone know of something similar to Rails or Maypole in Python? you may want to take a look at subway: it glues together cherrypy2, sqlobject and cheetah using an MVC approach. HTH, deelan. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Ruby on Rails or Perl's Maypole..is there a Python equivalent

2005-03-03 Thread Gary Nutbeam
I've noticed that the Perl camp has a very nice web/database environment called Maypole. Ruby has the Rails environment which on the surface seems similar to Maypole. I can't find anything in Python that ties a database to a web interface anywhere near as well as Ruby on Rails or Maypole. I see th