It seems a little disappointing that the author had such a bad experience with Python. The Django tutorial is a 10x faster and more useful introduction than Ha

It seems a little disappointing that the author had such a bad experience with Python. The Django tutorial is a 10x faster and more useful introduction than Hartl's Rails tutorial if you want to spend a night or two learning the basics and then toss together a crude blog over the weekend. Even better you barely need to know any Python to do it, either. (I'm not saying Hartl's Rails tutorial is bad, it's just going to take most people weeks and even then various pieces of it, like authentication/login, won't even be applicable to an actual app. Someone should make a rails tutorial that's all about making something quickly with commonly used components and less about the kitchen sink.) (I'm also saying this as someone currently developing rails apps.)