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Ask HN: Things that you can do with django but not with rails and vice versa.

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It would be interesting to know what are the things that can be done in one framework but either require a lot of method overriding or code modification(making framework not so productive for production purposes) or is impossible to do in other framework.

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Django: Can program in Python. Rails: Can't program in Python.

Ruby vs. Python is a frequent topic on HN [1] [2] [3] [4]. These discussions invariably focus on web development because of (a) the nature of HN, and (b) the fact that most Ruby applications are web applications.

I located all those references by my comment history, so I participated in all of the discussions. Generally I pointed out how painful Ruby's syntax is, how beginner-unfriendly the syntax plus the complexity of Rails is, how favorably Python contrasts, and then posed this Ask HN's very question.

The discussion thereafter often rapidly degenerated into a flame war, but one time I got some rather informative answers [5].

[1] Can anyone explain why Ruby is so popular? -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5783967

[2] Python for Ruby programmers -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5294318

[3] Ask HN: Why do so many people hate Ruby? -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5157886

[4] Off-topic flamewar -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5872899

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5784117

I'm still a rails newbie so I might be mistaken, but it seems there is no template inheritance in rails.

I absolutely love the way of thinking template inheritance is driving me to. Rails seems to take a similar approach as JavaScript frameworks and follows a more widget like approach (layouts) or a simple inclusion of template parts (partials).

I know that is true for erb, maybe rails adds something on top of that I'm not aware of.

Honestly I'm rather annoyed by the lack of template inheritance in a lot of templating engines. Partials just don't cut it.

Is this what you mean by "template inheritance"? http://railscasts.com/episodes/269-template-inheritance

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