I've done RoR stuff and something about "doing-things-the-rails-way" bugs me to no end. After being paid to work on a RoR app I started to hate Ruby. Some time

I've done RoR stuff and something about "doing-things-the-rails-way" bugs me to no end. After being paid to work on a RoR app I started to hate Ruby. Some time after I wrote something small and silly for my thesis (to visualize some data and give my classmates something to play with) in Sinatra and it rekindled my love for the language. Something I can't really put my finger on just rubs me in the wrong way in Rails, but using Sinatra felt like shattering chains that were holding me back. Maybe it was partly that I was learning NodeJS at the time, I dunno, but I can't recommend Sinatra enough. This being said I have zero experience with Sinatra in an production environment, so take this anecdote with a shovel(s) of salt.