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i have a simple suggestion, you should learn both, we live in a polyglot world now, you need to be able to learn multiple languages and to do so quickly. i started with php then moved to python/tornado/sqlalchemy, ror, ruby/sinatra/activerecord, nodejs/expressjs, and lately golang/gorilla mux/database/sql. just start with one, suggest ror, i’m sure you’ll have multiple projects in the future. ruby was built for web app development, django’s a bolt on for python that then added web functionality. dont worry about the community issues, ror has enough great libraries out there that you could put together a pretty slick website quickly. a side note, if you need to use some scientific packages, python might be better supported like numpy etc. fyi ruby language is much nicer than python imho (insert flame war). dont dwell on this decision too long, either should be able to get you what you want which is a slick website, get a move on it