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I love Ruby's syntax (even if the parser is a nightmare of special cases) and overall feel. But, I have no reason to use it because I really don't like using Rails. Rails remains one of the few libraries/frameworks that I just don't get along with.

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There is Hanami (https://hanamirb.org/) web framework which could try if Rails bothers you.

Hanami has progressed quite nicely. I may give it a try! Thank you.

Is Sinatra too bare bones?

An old joke: any sufficiently advanced Sinatra app is indistinguishable from Rails.

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