I share a similar sentiment, last encounter with Ruby was fixing an ex-contractor's app which didn't use bundler and relied on a different version of ruby. The

I share a similar sentiment, last encounter with Ruby was fixing an ex-contractor's app which didn't use bundler and relied on a different version of ruby. The fact that I had to spend two days trying different versions of backward incompatible dependencies together didn't really endear me to Ruby or Rails. In contrast, there's a much higher emphasis on backwards compatibility in Python and a lot less on monkey-patching. As for Django vs Rails, don't have enough experience with Rails to comment. The little I time I've spent in Rails I didn't like, there was too much magic in there to properly see what was going on and the automatic imports don't help with that either. Btw, I went with MongoKit after running into some index troubles using MongoEngine, worked like a charm.