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> While the number of man-months spent developing Rails is an order of magnitude greater than that spent developing Django

Wildly off base figure

1. Years under development. ROR: 5/Django 5

2. Members in largest google group: ROR 18000+/Django 14000+

3. Members in Irc currently: Ror 436/Django 401

4. Commits to repo: Ror ?/Django 11000+

So while Ror has a bigger community, it is not that much bigger.

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There is no easy way to measure this. But to support my point:

Rails first public release: July 2004 (5 years back)

Django's first public release: July 2005 (4 years back)

Rails Contributors: 1350

Django Contributors: 460

I never said that Django's community was smaller. I just said that it was more mature in their programming language and therefore it was easier for them to get things done right the first time.

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