TurboGears: Python on Rails?

gcantallopsr writes "If you liked Ruby on Rails and its 15m intro video (.mov) you will probably like TurboGears and its 20 minute wiki tutorial. (.mov) It shows you the development of a simple wiki in just 20 minutes, and there is a text version of the tutorial. TurboGears uses Python, SQLObject, CherryPy, Kid, MochiKit and some extra pythonic glue to help you to (in their own words) 'Create a database-driven, ready-to-extend application in minutes. All with designer friendly templates, easy AJAX on the browser side and on the server side, not a single SQL query in sight with code that is as natural as writing a function.'"

Comments

Scaling up, and scaling down

[DavidNWelton]

Ok, so some of these tools are not suitable for running Amazon. But guess what - most people are not running Amazon! A lot of people don't have the development resources that amazon has, either, so what they are really looking for is a sweet spot that lets them get going quickly, and will grow within reason.

I'm still mulling it over and working on it, but I talk some about "scaling down" in this article:

http://dedasys.com/articles/scalable_systems.html

You're right of course that you don't want stuff that falls over the first time traffic spikes a bit, but you absolutely must have something that you can use to produce a functional product. You can have the fanciest, most scalable system out there, but if you spend two months twiddling with XML config files, things just aren't going to work out.

Re:Does it scale?

[Scarblac]

if you want to do something for your professional career, don't waste your time with those kind of frameworks.

If you want to do something for your professional career, get familiar with as varied a collection of tools as you can. Know the pros and cons of each. Actually test their performance, make toy projects, steal ideas and patterns. Be opinionated, but prepared to honestly choose the best tool for the job you're given, and to explain why it is the best, to suits and to techies. A few hours getting to know something new is never wasted.