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Here's what I've found so far after starting a small Django gig (I already knew a fair bit about Rails):

- Rails has built-in migration support

- Rails has better support for APIs

- Django has some neat stuff in contrib including authentication and an admin interface

- Django has "pluggables" -- downloadable apps that can be snapped in just like the admin interface. Rails has engines, but they're new and not as mature as pluggables.

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> Rails has better support for APIs

What does this mean?

Probably talking about ready-built libraries. Poorly worded though.

To be specific, Rails has better support for providing XML and JSON APIs. One place where it has better support is serialization. In rails, there is an :include parameter to control whether to include objects from associations (e. g. comments in a post), that is available both on to_xml or to_json. I don't see an option for Django that does the same thing.

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Serializatio... http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/serialization/

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