I haven't used Django. Rails is both great and seriously flawed. Comparisons are generally fatally biased but they still get people thinking.

The transition of Rails to Merb shows that things are still in play. The reason that even the short-sighted, flawed comparisons are worthwhile is because we have so far to go towards creating a web framework that really helps or, for that matter, a language that really helps.

However difficult the discussion here is, it is necessary.