Comparing Rails to Django is a topic on it's own that is worth a very very long debate :)
After comparing languages out there and development cycles, we chose Ruby on Rails which proved to be the best for our needs.
We've compared most CMSs out there and came to the conclusion that they are not built for the next generation of web publishing services.
We decided to tackle the challenge by building our own CMS using ROR.
The unfortunate part of this story is that there are less Ruby on Rails developers we could find in Lebanon than fingers on one hand :( and have to resort to hiring people abroad.
We are aiming to have the first ROR team here in Lebanon :)
So if anyone knows ROR or is curious to learn, just hit this link
bit.ly/b2jAvK !