A little bit of backstory in case anyone's interested. This endeavor started out as a constitutional congress, members having been elected in a low turnout election in late 2010. For some legal-technical reason the election was illegal and therefore the powers that be decided to appoint the congress elects to a committee instead. All this was done as an appeasement response to public anger following the economic downturn in 2008. A clever, if expensive, political ploy as it made the government look like it was making an effort. The reality is that it makes no difference whether or not this committee makes any changes, anything they decide will be non-binding and advisory only. Most people in this country think the whole thing is monumentally pointless, being as there aren't many contentious issues in the current constitution to begin with.
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Get me some as well, installed ubuntu server today...
apt-cache depends a* | grep -c python: 18711
apt-cache depends a* | grep -c php: 1596
apt-cache depends a* | grep -c ruby: 2839
Not that it proves anything but it might be an indicator.
I share a similar sentiment, last encounter with Ruby was fixing an ex-contractor's app which didn't use bundler and relied on a different version of ruby. The fact that I had to spend two days trying different versions of backward incompatible dependencies together didn't really endear me to Ruby or Rails. In contrast, there's a much higher emphasis on backwards compatibility in Python and a lot less on monkey-patching. As for Django vs Rails, don't have enough experience with Rails to comment. The little I time I've spent in Rails I didn't like, there was too much magic in there to properly see what was going on and the automatic imports don't help with that either.
Btw, I went with MongoKit after running into some index troubles using MongoEngine, worked like a charm.
You might think it's more polished because you know the ecosystem better but pip does the same thing as gem & bundler, virtualenv the same as rvm and fabric the same as capistrano. I have the same problem you have, I can't for the life of me see the point of learning Ruby and because of that I never give it a fair chance.