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Why you should use Rails 3 and not Django

Submitted by Richard on Sun, 09/05/2010 - 12:28

I wrote a blog post recently titled 'Django vs Rails' and I had a lot of people read it. In the post I was very much more pro Django, but I do believe Rails 3 changes the outlook somewhat. Over the summer I was able to go to Euro-Python in Birmingham, UK and RubyConf in Tsukuba, Japan.

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Creating Rails like template helpers in Django

Submitted by Richard on Thu, 06/24/2010 - 22:01

I wanted to make some easy link helpers so that I could have customized rounded corner links without needing JS and so that I could change them easily later if I needed to. This is so easy in Rails it is just crazy trivial. This was not the case in Django, and even though I believe it should be easier (and I believe it is easier with a little help with a method here and there).

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Error: No module named messagesdjango.contrib.contenttypes

Submitted by Richard on Tue, 06/22/2010 - 22:00

I am not going to heavily blog about my experiences with Python and Django, but times that an error stumps me I will note it here briefly to help out with others who have similar problems. 

When installing the new messages module in Django 1.2 I got the following error

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Django vs Rails

Submitted by Richard on Fri, 04/23/2010 - 13:47

 Yes it is another one of those comparison blog posts! I apologize but I had to write something about this.

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