[JodieBenitez]

Ditto... I really enjoy Django's ORM (makes the trivial tasks dead-easy and steps out of the way when needed) and would like to know if it can be even better by borrowing ideas from ActiveRecord.

[jemmyw]

I think they already borrowed from one another quite extensively. As they're now both mature I would be surprised if there was much between them.

[sethrin]

There are very few situations where you'd need or want ActiveRecord to step out of the way, and in general Rails does a lot more for you.