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Evaluating Web Development Frameworks: Rails and Django (part 1/15)

This white paper, presented here as a series of blog articles, is a technical manager's guide to evaluating web development frameworks, with a detailed review of Ruby on Rails and the Django (Python) projects.

In this study we establish a list of evaluation criteria and then discuss and rate how well each framework addresses each criteria.

As your priorities and assessment may differ from ours, this report can be used as a road map for your own evaluation.

If you have already decided to use a specific framework or recently joined a team, this report may serve as a high level introduction, providing valuable context for your learning curve.

Start here: Whitepaper index


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Installing Rails on my iMac

Yet another log of one man's blind trek through unfamiliar territory: MacPorts, Apache 2, Ruby, Rails, MySQL5, and even PhP5. Includes a little demo to test the install.


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Ruby-on-Rails versus Xaraya

Both Xaraya and Rails are brilliantly architected on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) paradigm. This is one of the things that really got me jazzed about Xaraya, and in turn, has me really appreciating Rails. I've been toying with RoR for two days. I've been using Xaraya for two years. Here's some of my first impressions.


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