Just started learning Rails/Ruby in the last few weeks but very quickly I feel like I can be productive with this framework. Coming from the .Net world I'm amazed with all the little things that Rails helps you with that make such a big difference for most web apps and it just feels good developing in TextMate and Rails. I'm still having a little trouble with things like installing RMagick and its dependencies like ImageMagick. Deploying to a VPS is going to be a concern as well.