This is not which one is better but which one is easier for someone who has never approached this style of web application development before. I'm coming from a PHP and Perl background but I'm looking at jumping on the MVC bandwagon, the problem is that I'm not very familiar with either of these frameworks and was wondering which one is easier to get your head around. I've looked at starting guides for both and i'm equally lost for both.
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Anonymous2009-05-30 12:00
Mongrel is a server. You are thinking about rails.
Ruby is SLOW AS FUCK, which is actually fast enough for web development. The community is comprised of 30% of very cool people and 70% of insufferable idiots/mac hipsters/aspies/dickheads with a jesus complex. The rails stack is easy to get started with, but to reach a decent level you'll have to talk to dumbshits on IRC. It's not simply that the always outdated documentation sucks, it's more that it doesn't always exist to begin with.
Python is faster, which does not matter for the web. The community is comprised of 40% of decent guys and 60% of annoying guys. Django is harder to learn, and the documentation isn't great, but it's not as horrible. You will be slightly less productive with Django than you would be in the rails religion.
Neither is better. Web development sucks in general. Sometimes I wish I didn't make web sights.