I've been wondering about Django as a MS Access replacement as of late. I currently use either Rails or Sinatra, but Ruby has one major flaw as an MS Access rep

I've been wondering about Django as a MS Access replacement as of late. I currently use either Rails or Sinatra, but Ruby has one major flaw as an MS Access replacement: it has lousy _native_ libraries for generating MS Excel files. You can get around this by using JRuby via the Apache POI library. I'm finding that setting up a JRuby stack is currently more complex than an plain old Ruby stack. My understanding is that there are much better libraries for doing MS Excel generation and manipulation with Python.