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Jacob Christiansen
3,193 PointsRuby on rails vs. Django
Hi. I was wondering why treehouse chose to teach RoR as opposed to Django? I'm trying to decide which to learn for a webapp, I want to make. It seems like RoR apps just looks better, but I can't really see any logical reason for this, other than perhaps the RoR community has better designers? Or am I missing something?
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James Barnett
39,199 PointsThere is no such thing a perfect programming language. Both Python and Ruby share similar goals of increased programmer productivity. Their respective web frameworks were developed to written to allow Python & Ruby programmers to "make hard things easier and impossible things possible."
While I can't speak for Treehouse, I imagine one possible reason is that Treehouse is a young company and a few of their early hires knew Ruby on Rails so that's they taught.
Also Ruby on Rails is the new hottness and the startup world is all about buzz, so catching a ride Rails' coattails is probably not a bad business strategy for an early stage startup.
Matt West
14,545 PointsI agree with James, Ruby on Rails is very popular at the moment and this is probably why Treehouse decided to cover it. Rightly so in my opinion.
I think that Treehouse (may have still been ThinkVitamin at the time) used to have some content on Django. It was available as part of the archived content before that got cleared away.
If you're interested in Django, there's a great tutorial in the Django documentation (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/). Maybe if you pop an email to help@teamtreehouse.com someone might be able to dig up some of the old videos for you :)
James Barnett
39,199 PointsJacob - If you are interested in learning Python & Django you can check out this blog post, How I taught myself to code in 8 weeks.