Rails and Django commands : comparison and conversion

By : Shabda Raaj

The most commonly used Rails commands and their Django equivalents

Rails | Django

rails console | manage.py shell
rails server | manage.py runserver
rake | None
rails generate | None
rails dbconsole | manage.py dbshell
rails app_name | django-admin.py startproject/manage.py startapp
rake db:create | manage.py syncdb

The salient points to note are,

1. Django has all commands via manage.py, Rails has it broken into rails and rake.
2. Overall there are more Rails+Rake commands available than Django commands
3. There is no one to one mapping between Rails and Django commands. Eg. There are no equivalent to rake doc:* or rake notes in Django.

Similarly there is no equivalent to manage.py createsuperuser in rails.

References

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/django-admin/ http://guides.rails.info/command_line.html http://github.com/uswaretech/Acts-as-Django/blob/master/commands.markdown

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