Need a compelling argument to use Django instead of Rails

[Paddy]

Ray wrote:
> I just moved to another company that's mainly a Java/.NET shop. I was
> happy to find out that there's a movement from the grassroot to try to
> convince the boss to use a dynamic language for our development!
>
> Two of the senior developers, however, are already rooting for Ruby on
> Rails--although they haven't tried RoR themselves. When I suggested
> Django, they went like, "what's that?".
>
> I said, "It's like the Python counterpart of RoR".
>
> "Nah, we're not interested in Python."
>
> I think they are already predisposed to RoR simply because of RoR's
> visibility (i.e.: at my workplace everybody knows RoR but nobody knows
> about Django unless they've used Python as well). So far the arguments
> I can think of:
>
> 1. The investment of learning Python will be a good investment because
> it transfer to platforms that we've already supported, i.e.: JVM and
> .NET CLR (using Jython and IronPython). Ruby's availability on this
> platform is not as mature--JRuby is still at 0.9 and I don't think
> IronRuby is coming out anytime soon :)
>
> 2. Python is a much more mature language than Ruby--it's been around
> since ages ago and as such has a lot more tools, articles, and other
> resources than Ruby. It is also the language being used by
> high-visibility company like Google, with the creator of the language
> himself working there.
>
> 3. Python emphasizes readability instead of cleverness/conciseness.
>
> 4. What else? I haven't tried RoR so I can't argue meaningfully on
> whether using Django will put us at an advantage.
>
> Can you help me with my argument? Meanwhile I think I'll give RoR a try
> as well.
> 
> Thank you,
> Ray

Ruby does not have doctest :-)

- Paddy.