I self-taught hacker (I would never describe myself as a programmer), I found rails to be less clear, it seem to be unnecessarily terse. I hate how ruby loops, I can never remember the syntax.
I find that DHH's personality flavors the framework (in a bad way) as your personality flavors web2py in a positive way. It's hard to get used to blocks defined by indentation. I wish there were more examples of simple things like the one I mentioned previously. I find the migrations to not work that well and fail silently. Overall, I'm loving web2py and growing to appreciate Python. On Nov 18, 2010, at 15:12 , mdipierro wrote: > As a rails user, would you share your experience with web2py so far? > What you like, what you do not, what you think rails is better at? > We'll defend ourselves but not take any offense. This can help us > improve. > > Massimo > > On Nov 18, 2:47 pm, Lorin Rivers <lriv...@mosasaur.com> wrote: >> They are not set to false. >> >> I'm coming from a slight rails perspective (some experience with it). In >> rails, migrations are sequential. If you want to add a field to a table, you >> create a new migration that only does that. >> >> Regarding my question, then, do most people just edit the model (i.e., add a >> field, change a field's type, and so on)? >> >> On Nov 18, 2010, at 14:29 , VP wrote: >> >> >> >>> Unless you have migration set to False, these things should be >>> automatic. >> >>> On Nov 18, 1:53 pm, Lorin Rivers <lriv...@mosasaur.com> wrote: >>>> My database is PostgreSQL >> >>>> I have tables defined in my ../models/db.py >> >>>> Now I want to add some fields to one of the tables defined there. The >>>> table has data in it already. >> >>>> I tried modifying the original table definition but that didn't actually >>>> change the table's structure. >> >>>> Where should I make these changes? I have a model (rounding.py) that >>>> creates a new table in the database defined in db.py. That worked after >>>> some finagling (I think I had to drop the table and have the model >>>> recreate it, but it didn't have data yet). >> >>>> So what is the best method for making incremental changes to databases? >> >>>> I'm stuck and need some help. >> >>>> -- >>>> Lorin Rivers >>>> Mosasaur: Killer Technical Marketing <http://www.mosasaur.com> >>>> <mailto:lriv...@mosasaur.com> >>>> 512/203.3198 (m) >> >> -- >> Lorin Rivers >> Mosasaur: Killer Technical Marketing <http://www.mosasaur.com> >> <mailto:lriv...@mosasaur.com> >> 512/203.3198 (m) -- Lorin Rivers Mosasaur: Killer Technical Marketing <http://www.mosasaur.com> <mailto:lriv...@mosasaur.com> 512/203.3198 (m)
