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Article basically says this:

"Myth #5: Rails is hard because of Ruby. No it isn't"

The author never really tells us why it isn't. "It is amazingly simple" and "I'd argue.." aren't valid points to derail (no pun) this myth.

"I'd argue that most programmers could get up and running in Ruby in about the same time it would take them to learn another framework in their current language anyway."

I learned Stripes Framework in one day. Fail.

Exactly. Up and running and actually knowing how to use it are way different. Sure, its easy to get a rails app started. Just as easy as Grails create-app. That doesn't mean you know what to do next.

Groovy and Grails?

@Gregg: The author DOES tell us why he thinks Ruby is easy:

"After all, Ruby is neither LISP nor Smalltalk. It's not a completely new and alien world if you're coming from PHP or Java. Lots of concepts and constructs are the same."

By that logic nearly every language is easy.