> Rails stuff is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike Ruby.
I really like Python and have the exact opposite opinion as you. That is, to me, Rails is very like Ruby and Django is unlike anything else done in Python. Django has hindered me every time I've tried to use it. By comparison, Cherrypy, storm-orm, SQLAlchemey, Mako, etc are all pretty straight forward. Django is out in left field for me.
I really like Python and have the exact opposite opinion as you. That is, to me, Rails is very like Ruby and Django is unlike anything else done in Python. Django has hindered me every time I've tried to use it. By comparison, Cherrypy, storm-orm, SQLAlchemey, Mako, etc are all pretty straight forward. Django is out in left field for me.