It depends whether the framework is based on IoC containers or not.Rails and Django certainly are what you describes,Symfony 2 isn't. Truth is,with dependency

It depends whether the framework is based on IoC containers or not.Rails and Django certainly are what you describes,Symfony 2 isn't. Truth is,with dependency injection, one doesn't need a framework.But most people writing Ruby or Python apps don't understand the value of a registry that lazy-loads objects and it's dependencies.They mix module systems with IoC .