Your description screams "I'm doing it wrong." Simple advice since you need results: Have your bosses hire an experienced Rails hacker for 1-2 days to come in

Your description screams "I'm doing it wrong." Simple advice since you need results: Have your bosses hire an experienced Rails hacker for 1-2 days to come in and pair with you until you're over the initial learning curve. Any of the large shops (including my old one, Hashrocket) should provide this service for you if you insist on it. Won't cost more than a couple thousand bucks at most, less if you find an independent willing to be nice with you. I wouldn't want to be a complete Rails noob right now -- the first steps up that learning curve are brutal. However, once you have it down there's still nothing else that comes close to the productivity you get. In fact, I'm going to tweet a link to this in case people that follow me want to volunteer to help you.