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I would go with Django over web2py. If you're looking for more of a microframework, I would look at Flask.

Having built enterprise applications in Rails and Django, I would recommend Django over Rails 99.999% of the time. Django is a very homogeneous framework; it's easy to use, learn, deploy, maintain and has built-in ways to do just about anything you'd need to do in a web application.

Rails is more like a piece of flypaper, that you trow a bunch of stuff (gems) at and pray they stick. You can't even upload a file in Rails without using a plugin.

I agree. A language or framework isn't a reason for failure, however, it's a pattern that I observed at Razorfish for a few years. Maybe the devs we had just weren't very good :)

Rails

As a former senior developer at Razorfish in Austin, I have only worked on 1, no that's not a typo, 1 Java project that wasn't an utter failure.

On the other hand, I've yet to work on a Django project that was delivered late or ran over budget and was easily 10x more maintainable.

I put my money on Python and Django in 2008, and haven't looked back.