Ruby looks to me like a hack. I’m not the only one with problems there :)
I decided to ignore Ruby for the moment and focus on Rails. What i noted:
Very simple to install and set up new projects
You create a database and it’s tables, and Rails will handle them
Things get messy when you want to write SQL instead of using the framework to access the data model
URL generation is simple but not flexible
Rails templates looked ASPish, horrible, almost cthulhian. I couldn’t stand the sight of them. There is too much code in them and worst of all, I couldn’t find a way to change the template system (Clearsilver in Rails anyone?)