Title: I&#x27;m having a really hard time deciding between sticking with what little Python I know and using Django or switching over to Ruby&#x2F;Rails for developing my side project. I&#x27;m hoping anyone could jump in and voice their opinion on either side.<p>Clearly the Ruby community is experiencing some kind of event where the numbers are shrinking and some of the more prolific bloggers&#x2F;contributors are talking trash and moving on and i&#x27;m not sure what to make of this. There is alot of tutorials and information already out there but it&#x27;s getting dated and i&#x27;m not sure how much of it that was written in several-versions-old Rails will still apply and there&#x27;s not ton of new stuff coming out. There seems to be a gem or tutorial for anything I could need to do but it&#x27;s growing more stale by the day as their creators seem to be off to greener pastures.<p>Python has it&#x27;s moments for me but after doing some tutorials I&#x27;m really finding Ruby&#x2F;Rails to be just fun and exciting to use. I like how thorough the framework is and the development experience in general, with console commands for everything and automated tests re-running on save, and it seems they are adding greatly to the rails core, as opposed to Django&#x27;s big 2.0 feature was basically copying Flask&#x27;s URL system. I also like the community having a vocal figure like DHH kind of &quot;leading the pack&quot; with alot of methodology I agree with.<p>Is ruby really as bad as people say and is on it&#x27;s way out? Is leaving Python for it, if my only interest is web-application development, a dumb idea? it seems like i&#x27;m standing at this cross-roads looking out and seeing on one side, Rails is awesome but people hate Ruby, and the other side is people love Python but Django is a big limp dick and I don&#x27;t have time to program the kitchen sink with Flask. choosing between either is very confusing...
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