To be fair, Django only caught up with Rails in the past 5 years. When I started with Django it didn't have basic stuff that Rails had, such like auto database

To be fair, Django only caught up with Rails in the past 5 years. When I started with Django it didn't have basic stuff that Rails had, such like auto database migrations and the Rails asset pipeline. The database migration stuff really helps when building/iterating. The Django middleware was very finky at the time.