[Nottingham] Web application development frameworks; Rails vs. Django vs ???

[Dean Sas]

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Joshua Lock wrote:
> Afternoon gang,
> 
> I'm looking to develop a web application. This application will be quite
> complex so I'm looking to use one of the trendy web application
> development frameworks to ease the pain (and add to my skill set).
> 
> I'm writing to the list to ask advice, and seek recommendations on which
> framework to use.
> I've heard of Rails[1] and Django[2] which I am led to believe are quite
> similar. However I have no preference over these as I have not used Ruby
> or Python before.
> Also I'm not sure what else is out there; there must be similar efforts
> for PHP, Perl, etc?

I looked into this a while ago for PHP, there seemed to be a few
projects 'in the works', but nothing with as much polish as rails has,
and I'm led to believe django has. I'd recommend Rails as there's far
more documentation (or was last time I checked), plus some good books on
it. I've not used rails for anything worth while though, or tried any of
the others, so take my opinion with a hint of salt.

Dean




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