I’ve spent a lot of time with Django, and not a lot of time with rails.
For me, if I was doing minimalist CRUD and wanted to ship to mobile or a lot of users, I’d reach for Rails. Hotwire and Turbo seem great, and the ecosystem just seems better and more developed for customer facing stuff.
Most of my work has been internal tooling with an emphasis on data analytics or geospatial. Having python libs run natively is a big win for data analysis, and as another commenter posted, geodjango is very tough to beat for usability for geospatial work. For this I still maintain Django is pretty unbeatable.
I am happy to be corrected in both domains though, again, not much rails experience here beyond a couple toy projects.
You can use Hotwire libs with Django - integrating stimulus into my django project wasn't any more complicated than integrating tailwindcss for example.
For me, if I was doing minimalist CRUD and wanted to ship to mobile or a lot of users, I’d reach for Rails. Hotwire and Turbo seem great, and the ecosystem just seems better and more developed for customer facing stuff.
Most of my work has been internal tooling with an emphasis on data analytics or geospatial. Having python libs run natively is a big win for data analysis, and as another commenter posted, geodjango is very tough to beat for usability for geospatial work. For this I still maintain Django is pretty unbeatable.
I am happy to be corrected in both domains though, again, not much rails experience here beyond a couple toy projects.