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I don't know much about the Rails community, but they should definitely look at Django.

Django currently is more modular. The ease with which you can integrate third-party components is unparalleled in my experience. I also like Django's ORM a whole lot more.

Rails is awesome, other frameworks are too ... but keeping blinders on is not good on the long term.

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Rails borrows plenty from django and python at large. Merb's slices and Rails' engines were directly inspired by Django's apps. Rails is getting automatic escaping of strings in templates after Django showed it was a better default. Rack was directly inspired by WSGI. Rip is based on pip. Rails developers aren't "keeping blinders on." Exactly the opposite.

Rails 3 is taking a turn towards that direction. More modular, open to more ORM's (we have more than ActiveRecord these days, you know! :P), etc. And I'm happy for it. I really like that aspect of Django (and somewhat of Merb, though it was painful sometimes with all the deps), so I'm glad to see it coming to Rails.

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