State of Django vs Rails vs Others
I am a big advocate for mongodb and frankly I am pretty tired of django's "Django way". I do not want to use ORM and I actually prefer other templating system like Mako. I have coded on django extensively in the past. Recently I read up on pylons - and I like it a lot. However, I find their lack of plugins to be a huge turn-off. As far as I know, the developers for pylons are moving to pyramids. Flask from pocco looks nice but it's still immature as of right now.
On the other hand, I did a quick search on github and saw RoR is immensely popular. I personally know ruby and hate the language quite strongly. However, there are also a lot of plugins for RoR, and with other services tailored to RoR (like Heroku), it seems that RoR is the de facto standard for web dev.
I am a technical founder and I want to use a framework which would be as easy as possible to deploy and scale. Of course, the ability to find recruits on my campus for my team is also a huge factor why I want to pick a popular framework.
Frankly, I want to stay in Python but given the traction of RoR I am debating whether I should give it a try.
Please advise