I wanted to learn a full-stack MVC framework but when I was learning Django, it didn't seem to make as much sense to me. After doing Hartl's Rails tutorial, I started building a Rails app of my own and after awhile the Rails concepts just clicked in my head and I started getting really productive with Ruby on Rails. After building a Rails app, I was able to go back to Django and better understand its MTV paradigm, something I wasn't able to quite do when I first started learning. Nowadays I can build a web app using EmberJS and Rails or Django in the back-end, all depends on the scope of the project, but both are great, mature frameworks.