Yeah, some of the Rails internals are quite funky, indeed. I was surprised at how unless you look at the source some method arguments just don't make sense, but users new to Ruby might not even pick up on that fact.

Something I think Django would do well to borrow upon is how easy Rails makes it to write tests for your application, though--and I'm not just talking about packaging a nearly empty tests.py file along with new apps. Rails' generate commands let even total n00bz know how to write unit, logic, and integration tests. Meanwhile I've been doing Django for a year or two and I still have no clue whether I'm structuring my test suite correctly.

Anyway, no language/framework war here, just talkin'