it is apparent from this article that the author is a lot more familiar with Django than Rails and misses a lot of things. (e.g. I haven't seen a project in the last year that uses salted hash login generator - acts_as_authenticated is great - and there are admin interfaces available as plugins that are similar to what django offers by default.) Each framework has its advantages, but its unfair to compare them (in a which one is better sense) without equal knowledge about both.