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zacharyvoase
dagny
Python2010–2011
zacharyvoase / dagny

dagny

Rails-style Resource-Oriented Architecture for Django.

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What it is

Rails-style Resource-Oriented Architecture for Django.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2010-06-18 22:07:49 UTC to 2011-06-07 09:50:26 UTC.

012010-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJun 20102010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsDec 20102011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJun 2011

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Jun 20102010-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Jul 20102010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20102010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20102010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20102010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20102010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20102010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20112011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20112011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20112011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20112011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20112011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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po·Jun 7, 2011
The main REST framework options for Django seem to be: * Piston (https://bitbucket.org/jespern/django-piston/) * Tastiepie (http://toastdriven.github.com/django-tastypie/) * django-rest-framework (http://django-rest-framework.org/) * Web Machine (https://github.com/benoitc/dj-webmachine) * Dagny (https://github.com/zacharyvoase/dagny) * Roll your own (surprisingly common since it's not too hard) I think it's great that there are so many options but it's starting to get bewildering. I think part of the reason for this is how un-restful the default django routing/view technique is. The code samples in the Django documentation don't exactly start beginners down the right track the way other web frameworks do. You can do it the right way, but it requires a fair amount of discipline. I've been toying with replacing all of my django routing/vie
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ws with a framework (or at least a pattern) that encourages more restful design.
In Django REST framework with admin-style browseable self-documenting API

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