I'm debating whether to pick up Ruby on Rails in addition to my basic django knowledge, and as I explore the RoR community, I can't help but be amazed at how rich and active it is. For learning rails there are 3 very high quality books that talk about the latest version (Rails Way, Rails Tutorial, Agile Web Development with Rails). Compare this to the books available Django, none of which discuss the latest edition and many of which are outdated(e.g. Django book v2 (the latest ed.) covers Django 1.0!).
This doesn't touch on the huge number of blogs/sites that are dedicated to ruby news and tips (e.g. planetrubyonrails, railscasts, etc.).
Is there a reason for this discrepancy between the two ecosystems? Am I just not aware of where the Django community lives? Also, for those of you using Django or Rails, did the size of the community for your framework of choice influence your decision?
https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoResources#Communit...
Mailing lists:
https://www.djangoproject.com/community/ on the right
Sizes of communities:
reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/django - 4,181 readers
http://www.reddit.com/r/rails - 1,994 readers
http://www.reddit.com/r/rubyonrails - 921 readers
Stackoverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/django 20k tagged
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ruby-on-rails 40k tagged