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Member since:2005-07-24
I have noticed a strong inclination towards MacOSX, TextMate, and very permissive licenses among the new generation of Python based web frameworks, as well. Those traits seem to come as a unit for some reason. Actually, the pattern seems to be to develop on MacOSX and deploy on Ubuntu Linux.
Anyway, while I'm posting, I'll plug my personal favorite web framework:
http://www.djangoproject.org
Member since:2006-02-05
Don't ever mention django to a rails guy unless you want a fight ;-)
django actually came first, python is a more mature language, and the interpreter is alot faster. ruby is arguably cooler, and rails has better code gen though.
If you ever get the chance, give TextMate a try. Itll really blow your socks off. As for OSX, it is just such a joy to use that if you are doing something as cross platform as web work, there isnt that much of a reason not to.
Member since:2007-05-01
For your python editing, you could get the eric4 mentioned in another reply.
Or you get real nice environments with either
Komodo IDE, Wingware IDE on the commercial side.
With free Komodo Edit (edit only), or Wingware IDE 101 (for students so Auto Complete removed but still get debugger).
Its imho a he** of a lot better than a text editor. Especially when you do project management and get into refactoring code.
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2006-02-05
I didn't know that, I shouldnt have used absolutes like that without checking it out. What I should have said is that OSX is home to the majority of the RoR community.
Thats better then rails on Windows, where your best bet for a ruby app server is IIS with FCGI ;-) The big reason everyone loves developing ruby on the mac is due to the killer text editor TextMate, which imo has no match on any other platform.