Shares Reply March 24, 2019 3 min read I’ve used both Ruby and Python in my work — and while they’re similar, they’re also different in some critical ways. It’s a popular question, but an important one, so let me example the difference between Ruby and Python.  To set the stage, I first learned web development through Python (and the Python framework called Django). After spending four years building Django apps, I got a job doing Ruby on Rails and expected the transition to be straightforward. That’s when it became clear to me that the two languages and frameworks are very different and it’s not so easy to jump from one to the other.