New Rails and Django Guides
A List Apart, the famous online magazine “for people who make websites,” just published a pair of articles that help people who want to start out with Ruby on Rails: Getting Started with Ruby on Rails and Creating More Using Less Effort with Ruby on Rails.
No more than a day later, Digital Web responded with an Introduction to Django. I just find it interesting that we have all of this in the same week.
Ruby on Rails and Django are competing web application frameworks that follow the MVC pattern. Rails is built on the Ruby programming language, while Django uses Python. It’s friendly competition, of course… it all boils down to whether you’re a Pythonista or a Rubyist.
I am a huge fan of Rails, but I’d also like to learn more about Django… that is, if I can overcome my own Ruby vs. Python bias. One of my fondest memories of SXSW this year was hearing Michael Lopp ask from the stage, “What’s wrong with this Python code?” and someone in the audience called out, “It’s not Ruby!”
Oooh, snap!
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