The auto generated web interface is nice though.
The boilerplate comment is definitely valid, and is pretty much what this release was intended to address.
We've now introduced ViewSets (an extension of class based views that is similar to Rail's controllers) and Routers, which make it super quick and easy to get your API up and running.
The updated README should give you a good idea how simple the APIs can be now:
https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework
I get the impression that what TastyPie does really well is convention-over-configuration - making a bunch of really sensible design decisions on your behalf. What (I hope) REST framework does really well is staying close to Django's conventions, and being easy to customize all the way through, plus of course the browseable API. Either way, there's certainly plenty of folks happy with both frameworks.
The Zen of Python has something to say about this.
Side note -- the updated urls.py example in the README.md references "views.UserViewSet" but in the context of the example should just be "UserViewSet"... I think. I sent a pull request - ignore if I had it all wrong.
Regarding the boilerplate - IIRC the tutorial starts you off with lots of boilerplate then shows you how to refactor it so it is not needed.