A colleague of mine pointed out that this site may just be considered to be a troll site. Here's the thing - every blog post I've used to give real actual examples of how both Ruby sucks and the Ruby on Rails frameworks suck. I haven't just said "Ruby sucks ass" and left it there. That's a troll site. I genuinely have reasons for hating them.
Another colleague suggested I try Merb instead - fair enough, except that it's still based on Ruby, and I really don't like Ruby the langauge. Simply switching to another framework won't take me away from the quirky, awkward, and oft cryptic syntax.