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The Rails Way is to be concise and use dynamic code.

The Python Philosophy is to be explicit.

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Rails is written in Ruby.

Django is written in Python.

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Rails has many built-in helper functions for AJAX support using the Prototype and Scriptaculous libraries.

Django has little built-in AJAX support, leaving the choice of Javascript libraries and frameworks up to the developer.

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Major websites and projects using Rails include Basecamp, Twitter, and Yellow Pages.

Major websites and projects using Django include washingtonpost.com and chicagocrime.org

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Rails has no built-in admin system, but there are several plugins which can provide the functionality.

Django comes with a full-featured, built-in admin system.

Validity: 82%

Rails uses migrations to evolve the database schema.

At the moment, Django does not have a built-in mechanism to evolve the schema.

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Rails uses the database schema to determine the attributes of the models.

Django uses the attributes defined in the model to generate the database schema

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Rails uses the powerful eRb template language, allowing for complex code in the templates. Plugins allow the use of Liquid templates as well.

Django uses a simpler, designer-friendly template language

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frameworks come and go. long term success is based on the language. ruby is a bad copy of python.

Python is the reason to choose Django. Much more mature, capable, easier to scale. Invest in python.

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Ruby ain't a bad copy of python, more like a bad copy of smalltalk.

Python is a bad copy of Ada

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rails suck ass

django suck ass too

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Rails rules

No clue about Django, never used it

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