Have you heard of Django? I’ve looked at both of RoR and Django and I prefer Django; it’s faster, uses less memory(important if you used a shared host), comes w/ an admin application prebuilt and it will create your database tables via a python class rather than having to jump back and forth b/w MySQL Administrator for example.

Django is a python web framework, and was created by a large news company

http://www.djangoproject.com/

Btw — excellent work on l2fprod; I really enjoy your stuff!