Which Python web framework is most like Ruby on Rails?

[Paul Boddie]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> It's been a long-time source of puzzlement to me why so many web sites
> are so slow, and RDBMS overhead is an obvious candidate.  So the rant
> seems appropriate even in the case of web apps where clients can cause
> db updates.

Indeed. Large portions of a lot of Web sites could actually be deployed
statically, rather than hitting a database several times a page to
retrieve stuff which changes once in a blue moon. Moreover, static page
hosting is generally a lot cheaper than dynamic program hosting.

On the subject of requiring an RDBMS, though, whilst there are various
kinds of applications which benefit overwhelmingly from using such a
system, my experience with Web frameworks that have such prerequisites
suggests that new users either have to slog through the setup process
and take it on trust that installing and/or configuring an RDBMS is a
good and necessary thing, or they question the relevance of having to
set such a thing up.

Certainly, for general Web programming, every time I see some Web
framework which just ploughs straight forward with the "and now you'll
need to set up MySQL" catchphrase for "our simple Wiki application", I
can't help feeling that today's letters are W, T and F.

Paul