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mehphp

I just left a rails gig to go back to django. I like ruby ok but not a big fan of rails.

I totally see the value and understand why someone would like it but I just never could get to that point with it.

I much prefer the explicit imports, loops, etc I suppose

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That's interesting, what you think Django excels that Rails doesn't? Which ones were the pain points in your opinion?

I think it’s just preference really. I don’t think Django is better I just prefer some of it’s choices.

For example, I really don’t like that rails implicitly imports stuff into the namespace.

I like being able to follow the imports explicitly at the top of the file. I feel like there is way less of “where does this come from or what IS this?” when working with Django.

Autoloading is a major source of pain in Ruby, I think.

What function did I import, exactly? Which of the 37 “update” calls did I call when I called it on this?

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