Drupal, Joomla!, Plone, and Django are primarily content management systems rather than web application frameworks. None are as powerful and have as active a developer community as Rails. For example, check out the breadth and depth of the Rails 2010 conference that O'Reilly recently organized in Baltimore:
http://en.oreilly.com/rails2010Also check out a partial list of deployed Rails apps on its official site, and compare that to sites produced with other systems.
If you just want to create a CMS, I think Drupal is currently the best. If you want to create a more flexible site, however, including one with a RESTful API (supporting web 2.0 clients), Rails is the best choice. This factor is a strong one for me -- creating web sites with services that may be accessed not only via a generic browser but via dedicated clients on any platform or device using an API of that site (like Twitter, for example, which is developed in Rails).
Jamal On 7/30/2010 8:14 AM, Homme, James wrote:
Hi Jamal, Can you elaborate on why you think this? I know that Python has frameworks like this. And there are the popular packages like Plone, Jumla, Drupal, and others I can't think of right now. Thanks. Jim Jim Homme, Usability Services, Phone: 412-544-1810. Skype: jim.homme Internal recipients, Read my accessibility blog. Discuss accessibility here. Accessibility Wiki: Breaking news and accessibility advice -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamal Mazrui Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 6:31 AM To: blindwebbers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; programmingblind; Program-l Subject: Seeking co-learners in Ruby on Rails development As you may know, Ruby on Rails is a popular web application framework. Its official web site is http://RubyOnRails.org Besides documentation there, I found an excellent tutorial at http://RailsTutorial.org I have included a text version of that tutorial, as well as many others on the Ruby language and Rails package, in the archive http://EmpowermentZone.com/ruby_doc.zip After extensive research on web content management systems and application frameworks, I have decided that Rails is currently the best fit for some sites I want to be able to do. Its power comes with complexity, however, and, unfortunately, there are less resources available for helping Windows developers use this framework compared to Mac or Linux developers (I would develop on Windows and then deploy on a Linux web host). So, I thought it could benefit my self-learning if other blind developers were also pursuing that path together. We could share tips along the way, hopefully helping one another out of jams, and reinforcing motivation to continue. If anyone else on these lists is interested in learning Rails together, or if you happen to know Rails already and can lend a hand, please speak up. Thanks, Jamal __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind This e-mail and any attachments to it are confidential and are intended solely for use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete it. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not keep, use, disclose, copy or distribute this e-mail without the author's prior permission. The views expressed in this e-mail message do not necessarily represent the views of Highmark Inc., its subsidiaries, or affiliates. __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
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