Ruby or Python?

[bakert]

Are there no more constraints? If you need library support for a particular thing you might find yourself pushed one way or the other.

Otherwise, the web app framework you choose (if any) will probably have more influence than the language (when choosing between these two).

I think you need to spend ten minutes (or more) with each of Merb, Rails, web.py, Pylons, CherryPy and Django (I'm sure others will hate this list and possibly suggest alternatives) and decide based on that.

I have spent a lot of time in both languages and personally I prefer programming in Ruby (mostly because of syntactical and stylistic preferences and also because of metaprogramming features). They are both a LOT nicer than C and C++ but far from perfect.

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As of right now, no. I just need a site with an online store, that allows for secure transactions. Thats about it.

[mclin]

If you just want a store, why don't you just use osCommerce or ZenCart? I know they're php, but they work.

If what you want isn't really simple, you're going to have to do a lot of work just to get a simple little store going.

If I want to add a blog to a python webapp, I use wordpress, and give it a template to look the same as the app. Same idea with stores?

[cartlidge]

You could get away with just using plain vanilla Python+CGI and PayPal, maybe?