I could have bet 100$ that RoR would have been chosen simply by reading the first paragraph: "I've already used Ruby a few years ago but I'm new to Python". Wha

I could have bet 100$ that RoR would have been chosen simply by reading the first paragraph: "I've already used Ruby a few years ago but I'm new to Python". What else do you want? On a side note, Django is far from being "minimalist"; http://flask.pocoo.org/ http://flask.pocoo.org/ is minimalist, not django. I'll agree that Django is also less "Convention over Configuration" than Ruby.. for instance, it's a bit hard to chose where to put helper functinos in Django, whereas Rails put a helper file for you, etc.