I really enjoy Flask's simplicity (relative to Django) and light-weightness. It was the first web framework I used, actually. Armin Ronacher & team make quality products.
I actually started diving into Python a few months ago, and after a day or two into it I had already ported a feed aggregator from PHP to Python thanks to Flask: https://github.com/giu/hsr-twitterverse. I've also written a simple paste site using Flask without any headaches.
Its simplicity is just amazing, and it's really fun to work with.
Can't help you with Rails, but in case you or anyone else didn't know the Django-Extensions app adds the Flask (Werkzeug) debugger to Django projects with the run_plus command.
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I really enjoy Flask's simplicity (relative to Django) and light-weightness. It was the first web framework I used, actually. Armin Ronacher & team make quality products.
I actually started diving into Python a few months ago, and after a day or two into it I had already ported a feed aggregator from PHP to Python thanks to Flask: https://github.com/giu/hsr-twitterverse. I've also written a simple paste site using Flask without any headaches.
Its simplicity is just amazing, and it's really fun to work with.
The debugger is badass. I built a few simple sites with Flask year and it was the thing I wished most I could have in Rails.
For Perl developers - The debugger has been ported to PSGI/Plack - http://blog.plackperl.org/2011/05/miyagawaplack-middleware-i...
Can't help you with Rails, but in case you or anyone else didn't know the Django-Extensions app adds the Flask (Werkzeug) debugger to Django projects with the run_plus command.
I've been looking at light-weight scripting-language frameworks, any experience with Catalyst? I'm a fan of Perl.
Catalyst is a full blown MVC web framework. For light-weight (micro) web frameworks in Perl have a look at:
* Dancer (http://perldancer.org/)
* Mojolicious::Lite (http://mojolicio.us/)
* Squatting (http://p3rl.org/Squatting)
* Web::Simple (http://p3rl.org/Web::Simple)
Great, thanks for the suggestions
Thats OK.
PS. Here is a presentation doing a loose comparison between Dancer & Flask called "Dancer for Python programmers" (http://www.slideshare.net/xSawyer/perl-dancer-for-python-pro...)
Catalyst is not light weight. You would need to look at Dancer or Mojolicious for Perl equivalents.
No, sorry.