By : saikiran - Designholik

A framework is a basic conceptual structure which you can use as a “scratch” for your web-projects. For instance, instead of defining global reset, consistent baseline, typographic rules or basic styles for forms over and over again — every time you work on a new project — you can prepare a default-style once and reuse it in all your future projects. This is what you call a CSS Framework. Major Advantages of CSS Frameworks

• Increase productivity.
• Cross Bowser Compatibility
• Clean, Well structured easy to maintain code base.

• Takes time to understand the CSS framework.
• You ...

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 ...

By : Shabda Raaj

Rails Active records and Django models are more similar than they are different. This is a quick guide to converting between Rails 3 and Django 1.2, and is available on github at http://github.com/uswaretech/Acts-as-Django

Defining models

Both Django and Rails keep the canonical database representation in ruby or python.

#Django

class Post(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length = 100, )
    slug = models.CharField(max_length = 100, )
    body = models.TextField()

class Comments(models.Model):
    post = models.ForeignKey(Post)
    username = models.CharField(max_length = 100, )
    comment = models.TextField()

#Rails

#db/schema.rb
ActiveRecord::Schema.define(:version => 20100319195739) do

  create_table "comments", :force ...