Why web startups favor Ruby & Rails vs Python & Django?

http://forums.udacity.com/questions/100012806/why-web-startups-favor-ruby-rails-vs-python-django

This is a great discussion question, but perhaps we should also consider other open source tech like PHP and node.js and Scala in the mix.

http://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1yk1mt/what_makes_django_rails_and_nodejs_the_hot/

PHP vs Rails vs Node.js vs Scala vs Go vs ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD5DMGSqzEo


https://www.udemy.com/blog/modern-language-wars/

The pre-baked route is to use
https://www.parse.com/
http://apigee.com