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Amusingly, I don't recommend Django even for first timers like the guy, however I'm not usually one of those people who answers a different question when asked, for the same sorts of criticisms in some areas as I have about rails. I like itty bitty frameworks usually. Sintra runs on Heroku, and will definitely be brought up before I hear about another project about to be backended there.

Honestly, I think Rails will give you a cleaner project with most groups of devs. There is a lot to be said for that. I think if you took a lot of people who are successful as rails devs, they'd struggle with the "having your own opinions are necessary" issues you have when you hit the open country of python webdev, and not perform as well. If the guy asking is just wanting to make something, I think RoR is a better material, cept it can't do some things. I think Django is a less good "base material" which many people will make an inferior product, but if you're highly competent, it's softer, less rigid structure allows you to be a better rapid developer rapidly dealing with changes to environment and project spec.

I, particularly speaking, happen to be a rapid developer of pretty complex systems. A long rails project is probably going to be a better system, and is almost DEFINITELY going to be a better hand me down from someone else, but a Django system will almost always allow a small change.

Rails is building a house of granite with no other materials. Django is using a bunch of softer stuff.