'rails' Category
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Jul152005
Meet Django – A Pythonic Rails Killer
To all Rails developers, please stop picking on PHP, Perl, Java, and .Net– it’s just too easy. Aim a little higher–here’s your real competition: http://www.djangoproject.com/
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Jul112005
Rails vs Plone – The battle of design patterns
When I spent some time playing with Ruby on Rails back in May, I could not help but wish that Rails (or something like it) was around when I was first building and prototyping the Plone-based “MyThoughtWorks” time and expense system. 18 months earlier, I picked Plone because it was written in Python and [...]
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Jun302005
A Rails-like App in Python with CherryPy
In many discussions about “what does Ruby on Rails got that the Python community doesn’t got?”, a growing consensus is that a combination of CherryPy (controller), SQLObject (model), and Cheetah (view/templating) is part of the answer. In fact, a developer from the CherryPy project has started Subway, a Rails clone, using those three packages. Subway [...]
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Jun212005
ZiddlyWiki and React Projects
I stumbled across Tim Morgan’s website today and felt compelled to write him an email about it (which I did). Two points really: “Tim, you rock.” and “Keep up the good work.”
I, too, have been impressed lately by TiddlyWiki and Ruby on Rails and have been wondering how to reconcile those tools with my Zope [...]
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Jun152005
What Ruby on Rails Gets Right
Rails is cultivating a culture of simplicity and documentation that is lacking in the Python culture-at-large.