The success of the Ruby on Rails web framework is somewhat based on its ability to soothe the pain caused by the not-so-rapid development process of other, so-called “enterprise-ready” frameworks. But Rails is not the only Ruby web framework, and not the fastest one for initial prototyping(*). The faster (more rabid?) ones I’ve looked at:
Its hard to imagine what faster development would look like – maybe a web interface for defining Camping or Sinatra event handlers? Code the app directly from the browser!
(*) Footnote: Note that I use the word “prototype” because that is all I have done with them – I see no reason they couldn’t scale as well as Rails or any other web framework.