You can't really compare Python to RoR, as one's a language, the other is a framework. It's either Ruby <-> Python, or RoR <-> one of the python frameworks (pr

You can't really compare Python to RoR, as one's a language, the other is a framework. It's either Ruby <-> Python, or RoR <-> one of the python frameworks (probably Django). Pesonally, I'd go with Python & Django, because I found the Django docs far easier to understand, and less of a pain to set up. Whenever I tried to follow any of the Rails guides, I was advised to throw out everything Ruby my distribution made and compile from source - no thanks. With Django, I could get started with what was immediately available, no compiling neccessary. That, and I found python to be easier to understand than ruby.