I don't know anything about Laravel but I've been working with Rails since 2006 and with Django since 2016. Django has little to do with Rails. It's much more similar to Java Struts from 2005 (when I left it for Rails), form objects and template tags among the other nuisances. No XML thanks god, but a weak deployment story (no Capistrano or Mina, I built my own tool). I'd pick Django over Struts without thinking (I don't do Java anymore, even with morr modern frameworks), but I pick Rails over Django any time customers give me the choice. Django (and Struts) are optimized for large projects at the cost of developer time but very few projects grow even to medium sized. Django has a decent admin tool. That's the only advantage I can think it has over Rails for the typical project I do. I also worked with Phoenix (Elixir) in the last 12 months. It's kind of midway between Rails and Django in terms of framework and language complexity.