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Linkbait with a main course of generalization and ample sides of selection bias. OP is a Python/Django shop -- if this is intended as a call to arms it is severely misguided.

What does web design have to do with the actual languages? All you've proven is that Ruby developers spend more time on HTML and CSS.

With regard to docs, as of May 2011

  "With revision 31499 of trunk RDoc reports that just 
  under half of ruby has not even a single character of
  comments with over half of the classes and modules
  missing documentation"

Source: http://blog.segment7.net/2011/05/09/ruby-1-9-3-documentation...

Given finite developer resources, I'd rather have docs over shiny. The Python community has its priorities straight.