What frameworks, in your opinion, are stable, relevant today, easy to use, and has a good community?
I've been doing some client-side scripting with Ruby lately just for fun and I've also played with Python in the past. I haven't used Rails or Django. After reading all of this, I'm leaning towards Python/Django but haven't used neither web framework I'm curious as to people's opinions.
I can pull any one of those sites up today and make changes using the latest and greatest features of C#, and they won't complain. Or I can pull out the cruftiest bad practice from .NET 1.1 and have that work too.
Django has a good reputation for API stability, and has fantastic documentation (Rails has caught up, but for a long time Django was a standout). My 1.1 books still work for 90% of 1.3, and the 1.1>1.2>1.3 release notes explain and offer solutions for any changes they make (such as class-based views).
I dabbled in Rails & Django over the last 2-3 years, and took a big detour into Rails a few months ago. I like the conventions, but it's easy to get distracted when looking for plug-ins/gems to solve your problems. Every time I look back at Django, it takes me half a day to get back into the flow. Rails, not so much.