As a professional Rails developer, I will try to answer all your points from a pro rails point of view. Granted, I have dabbled with Django and found it satisfy

As a professional Rails developer, I will try to answer all your points from a pro rails point of view. Granted, I have dabbled with Django and found it satisfying also. * Adoption - Rails is being heavily adopted, especially with the startup community, but also state agencies, hospitals etc. * Community - Rails has a strong community of core devs, plugins devs, conferences, books etc. * Jobs - Tons of Jobs in my experience. We have a hard time finding good Rails/Ruby devs. I have checked the market, seems like there are plenty of Rails jobs across the country. Check out: http://jobs.37signals.com/ http://jobs.37signals.com/ * Scalability - Yes, Rails can scale. Check out: http://rails100.pbworks.com/Alexa+Rankings http://rails100.pbworks.com/Alexa+Rankings Ever heard of Hulu, JustinTV or Big Cartell? * Fun - Ruby was designed for programmer happiness