It seems like it would be easier to rewrite the site in a newer version of Rails rather than switching platforms entirely, so it sounds like someone's skillset is more Python based.
Oh! Does the Python world have something like Rack?
Oh! Does the Python world have something like Rack?
WSGI 1.0, PEP-333: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0333/
WSGI 1.0.1, PEP-3333: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3333/