December 7th, 2005 by Mark Ramm
Ian Bicking has some commentary on SQLObject, Django, and Active Record as ORM packages, and specifically what metaprogramming suff is available in Ruby and Python. Much of the best information is in the comments, but there’s lots of interesting stuff here. Now if only I had time to work through all the details for myself!
As always, I am excited to see cross-pollination between these two projects, and to see all of this forward motion on the ORM’s for Python and Ruby — my two favorite languages!
December 7th, 2005 by Mark Ramm
Evaluation: moving from Java to Ruby on Rails for the CenterNet rewrite
There is a lot of good information in this evaluation of Ruby on Rails. Their preliminary work showed a roughly 20:1 Java to Rails code differential, and they claimed that the scalability for Rails was easier and better than Java.
It would be interesting to see how TurboGears would fit into this comparison, I think for simple applications there will be more code than Ruby on Rails, but not that much. But then for larger applications which could re-use a number of external libraries, I would expect the wealth of good Python libraries to begin to equalize or even tilt the LOC count in TurboGears’ favor.