I disagree. With the proliferation of new tutorial books and screencasts in addition to more and more web developers choosing Rails, it's far from dying, it's actually in growing at rapid rate.

Where do you get your numbers for that? I'm genuinely curious. I had the opposite impression; but I don't have any numbers at all to back it up.

Just anecdotal evidence. I'm just seeing an increase of job postings online, but after doing research, the term 'Ruby on Rails' is actually declining on Google trends. http://trends.google.com/trends?q=ruby+on+rails&ctab=0&#... I thought at least there would be a slight bump after Rails 3.0 release, guess not.

not surprised by python itself, since it is a beast of a language on all fronts (web develpment, cross platform guis, games, scientifc computing, etc etc..), and on all os (windows is a first class citizen, one of the reasons for its massive success).

django on the other hand is not there yet, compared to rails.