Presentation at Refresh Denver
Last week, Jay Graves and myself presented the differences between Ruby on Rails and Django at Refresh Denver. We decided on a common database schema, functionality and design. We then each built the same application in our respective frameworks.
During the presentation, we each explained our frameworks on a surface level followed by a brief demonstration of how each framework accomplished a few of the things that our applications did.
Jay's presentation can be found here and his Django application here.
My presentation can be found here and my Rails application here.
Overall, I absolutely believed this presentation to be a success! I'd like to see other frameworks and languages go head to head like this in the future. I feel like the ability to see two frameworks side by side was a real benefit, allowing a clearer look at how each works with respect to the other.
2 Comments to Presentation at Refresh Denver
That's an interesting experiment! What were the conclusions? The ups and downs of each frameworks? That would make a good follow-up post!
It actually was really informative. I learned a lot from Jay's presentation on Django. We discovered that the two frameworks are most different in their overall approach in retrieving data and displaying it.
Both frameworks aim consistently use best practices wherever possible, so their allotted power really rests in their base languages and ORM's. With that said, the languages themselves really only tend to vary in how they approach the logic and presentation side of things.
You might find the two presentations linked above of interest. We weren't exactly consistent in how we formatted our presentations, but they do both show a lot of the core of each frame work. Hope you find them interesting!
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October 2, 2008