Rails and Django commands : comparison and conversion

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